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CHAPTER 4: Configuration
Time-Out
Purpose
The timeout is the amount of non-transmitting time
that may elapse during the transmission of a job
before the Multiport Spooler VIII considers the job
to be finished. The MPS-VIII will wait the length of
the timeout for a transmission to resume without
treating it as a new transmission. After the timeout
expires, the MPS-VIII considers the next
transmission to be a new job.
Applies To
All port types.
Possible Values
The default timeout for parallel input ports and
serial bidirectional ports is 6 seconds. For parallel
and serial output ports, the default is 1 second. The
timeout range for any port is from 1 to 999 seconds.
Usage Notes
General
The LEDs of the input and output ports are ON
during transmission and turn OFF when
transmission ends and the timeout expires.
On input ports, the expiration of the timeout
marks the end of a job received from an external
source. A timeout is relevant to output ports only
when two or more Multiport Spooler VIII units are
daisychained or cascaded (connected together; see
Section 7.4
).
Input-Port Timeouts
Some software packages, such as AutoCAD
®
, perform
a variety of calculations while printing or plotting.
While these calculations are in process there may be
temporary pauses in data transmission. If the input-
port timeout expires during such a pause, the
Multiport Spooler VIII assumes that the job has
finished, although there has actually only been a
transmission delay.
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