On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:19 -0700, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> >
> > Well, after umch mucking around, the Brother 5250DN works with
> > OO and prints in Duplex only if I turn the dialog to OFF where is
> > say
> >
> > Duplex __ [arrows]
>
> Do I understand this correctly? Duplex works in OO when duplex
> is set to OFF = no duplex? Oh joy of modern software!
that should have been::
Duplex _OFF_ [arrows]
>
> This reminds me to a POS program with a very creative
> error handling, it went like this:
>
> switch error
> case 1: "printer not connected";
> case 2: "scanner not connected";
> case 4: "keyboard not connected";
> case 8: "some other error";
> ...
> default: "file not found"; (without mentioning which file)
LMOA! man, that's rich... sounds like some seriously lazy hacking
to me... .
>
> Maybe OO should add something like "In order to activate a
> feature, deactivate it". :-)
>
i'm actually starting a ~/.helpOOo file with tricks and tips about the
program, mostly swriter. there are some pretty sharp folks over on
oooforum.org. luckily:_)
>
>
> > Now that that's resolved, I can change the printer web page
> > config back to Simplex and everything will be fine. The King
> > will be in his heaven; God will be in his Counting_House, &c.
>
> I hope both are well, "up and running". :-)
>
> By the way, long time that I saw someone write "&c.".
>
not sure if easier to type "etc." or "&c", given the shift-7 == '&'
... but it's different.
gary
>
> --
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
--
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