Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!ames!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!bsrdp From: bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Dos 3.3 PRINT......Help Message-ID: <176@orchid.warwick.ac.uk> Date: 5 Jul 89 09:15:31 GMT References: <609@vax1.tcd.ie> Organization: Warwick Business School Lines: 13 In article <609@vax1.tcd.ie> jagrogan@vax1.tcd.ie writes: > I have a PC with Dos 3.3. The problem is with the Print.com. >I'm finding that I cannot queue files with it and after printing two files, >the whole system crashes. Some DOS external commands are TSR. They can leave fatal holes in memory allocation. Call the commands early in your session to eliminate the risk of a programme de-allocating space beneath them. For example, I include append print /d:PRN /b:16384 > nul in my AUTOEXEC.BAT. -----