Re: WHFC-3d problem being too fast.

[Johannes Joubert <johannes@karoo3.agric.za>]

I had the same type of problem on Windows 95 and NT 4.0 machines, I
changed the Spool settings to "Start printing after last page is spooled"
and this solved the problem for me.


On Sat, 3 May 1997, Alex Ongena wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I installed whfc-3d according the readme file on a Win-95 486-DX4
> machine.
> A first test sending a doc from M$-Word seemed to work, however when
> I try to send a multiple page document (say 5 pages), sometimes 1 page
> is taken by whfc, sometimes 2 or 4 but nearly never the 5 pages.
> 
> Whfc pops up too fast, before M$-Word finisches his job printing to
> the 'faxspool' file resulting in only a part of the document being
> faxed.
> >From earlier readings on the list, I understud that whfc takes a
> copy of the 'faxspool' file to transmit it to Hylafax. When I look in
> my spool directory 'tmp', I indead see 2 files: faxspool and ~fax0000.ps.
> The differ in size !!! When I try multiple times, the file size of
> ~fax0000.ps is always different.
> 
> 1) this will be the cause of my problem.
> 2) how can whfc know when printing to 'faxspool' is finished ?
> 3) is there another reason why this fails ?
> 4) is there a locking problem ? (my c:\tmp\faxspool is on a HD, no network)
> 
> Any help is welcome.
> 
> Alex
> 
> Hylafax 4.0pl1 on Linux
> Whfc-3.0d on Win-95
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