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Date: Sun 19-Nov-1991 17:11:23 From: omv@athena.mit.edu (Daniel K Hartman) Subject: Problems with NeXT Printer / BACKSPACE.APP (unrelated) Recently, I have had problems with my NeXT Printer. One day it start aborting jobs and sending a "I/O Error - Print Job Aborted" error (or something like that). This would happen sporadically, so that I might be able to print out a 8 page document fine, then the second page on the next one might fail, then it would work fine, etc... I tried everything from turning the entire system on and off again, to printing from many different programs (PrintTester, lpr, from Apps, etc.) I did bring the system into to the MIT computer service center, but they claimed they could not get it to fail. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem before, and what causes it? (I assume its hardware and suspect my slab is the problem, but that's just an educated guess) Also, it appears to me that the ALL option on BackSpace.APP does not actually do much useful, as it always selects the first screen saver, and then does not change until the screen has been saved, restored, then saved again. Has anyone hacked backspace to switch screen savers every 5 min or so? Thanks, omv@athena.mit.edu (Dan Hartman)
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