Printer

The following settings affect print functions within a VDM.

PRINT_TIMEOUT

Function:

Use this setting to adjust the amount of time, in seconds, that the OS/2 V2.0 print subsystem waits before forcing a print job to the printer. In DOS, information sent by a program for printing goes directly to a printer. However, the OS/2 V2.0 print subsystem assembles print information in a spool file. After a specified period of time, during which the spool file does not grow larger, OS/2 V2.0 print subsystem sends the information to the printer as a single print job.

There is no need to exit the DOS program before the print job is released by the OS/2 V2.0 print subsystem. This is useful for applications which do not explicitly close their print jobs.

15 seconds, configurable from 0 to 3600 seconds (0 seconds is no timeout).

At any time.

A timeout of 1 or 2 seconds is sufficient for small print jobs, such as copying the contents of the screen. However, when printing large files, formatting documents, or running calculations, the value must be set high enough to allow all print results to reach the spooler before the time limit expires. If not, results go in two or more spool files instead of one, and the resulting output may be unsatisfactory.