Digital BW, The Print

There may be other issues beyond PS.  My laptop, for instance, has some 
charming Novell drivers (read: crap) installed so I can print at the 
office.  When I'm not connected to the network (i.e. the printer isn't 
visible), PS seems to hang during loading and often takes several minutes 
to finish.  No other programs seem to have this problem, but there is 
something about how PS enumerates or checks on the printers that causes 
the Novell driver to actually go out and look for 'em.  Changing default 
printers didn't help.  The magic trick (ugh) is to physically disable the 
network connection when PS tries to load -- it comes up in a flash -- then 
re-enable it.  Of course, I'm quite sure this is all Novell's fault, and 
something about PS's unusual startup behavior merely triggered it.  Note 
that no other apps I have exhibit this problem.  The latest Novell drivers 
seem to have almost entirely eliminated it.  It only took three years for 
them to fix it.  Yay.

-- 
Jon Dubovsky ( entropy@... )