#Scribble!
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Is it possible to halt printing in Scribble! once you have started printing?
Besides a warm reboot…which I use now.
Thanks, George Glines
The other solution is to kill the printer and see what happens. I tried it
once but don't recall what happened.
Killing the printer gives you the printer trouble requester which repeats
forever until you reboot.
George
Ick, that most be why I never did it again!
George:
It does not repeat forever (it just seems like it)! I believe AMIDOS
tries about 10 times (maybe twenty) before it just decides that you don't know
what you are doing (or your printer is really broke) and gives up.
73s,
bill
Kevin:
I have only been 'half-heartedly' following this thread but it seems to
me that it is a discussion of how to stop a print operation while in scribble.
I think that the correct answer was given but having had the need to terminate
a print out and not remembering how to accomplish such a feat I have turned off
the printer. It works but necessitates a fair amount of patience since Ami DOS
recognizes what has gone wrong and continues to prompt you to correct the
problem for about 5 minutes before giving up!
73s,
bill
The real solution would be for Scribble! to provide an interrupt mechanism to
let us stop unwanted printer output (first page is fouled up and the next
twenty will be so). This is fairly easy to do from the INSIDE and almost
impossible to do from the OUTSIDE (without source).
— Kevin
It's there, hit ESC or click on the window and you're out of the print
operation…Dave
Thanks Dave. You saved me the trouble of trying to find that information for
Kevin! 73s,
bill
Kevin:
I apologize! I thought that I had seen someone post the method, guess
that was not correct. There is a way to terminate a print operation from
within the scribble program. The only problem is that I don't remember what it
is and am not where I can find out. Will try to answer that later if I can.
73s,
bill
Bill;
I am not sure of this, but I believe hitting the ESC key will get you
out of printing. Again I remember this vaguely from a message from Chris of
MSS.
Ken