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From: jetzer@studsys.mu.edu (Mike Jetzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: RAM card as a print buffer?
Message-ID: <603@studsys.mu.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 89 13:56:48 GMT
References: <881@orbit.UUCP> <574@tahoma.UUCP>
Reply-To: jetzer@studsys.UUCP (Mike Jetzer)
Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <574@tahoma.UUCP> prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg) writes:
>From article <881@orbit.UUCP>, by hackman@pnet51.cts.com (Otto Heuer):
>> I've got a memory expansion card on my //gs (total RAM 1.25 meg) and I was
>> wondering if there was a way to have Appleworks spool files to this extra
>> memory when printing.
>> My memory expansion card is Apple's brand, not AE's (if that makes a
>> difference).
>
>Unfortunately it does.  The AE RAM card comes with s/w that gives you a
>"print spool" option.  If your card was by AE you'd have what you want
>already.  Maybe there is another way though.  (since I have an AE card I
>don't know if there is.)		Sorry,  Phil
>
>> --HACK-MAN

AE sells their desktop expansion software for $15.00 (last time I upgraded
my software, it was $15.00).  Give them a call at (214) 241-6060.

Originally, I ran the expanded AppleWorks on my //e with a RamWorks.  Later
I wanted to run AW on my other //e, which has an AST SprintDisk (RamFactor-
type card).  However, the expansion software checks to see if it is a real
AE card onto which it is expanding.  If it is not an AE card, it hangs.

I have developed a 4-byte patch that will get the expanded AW running on
a non-AE card (at least a RamFactor-type card; don't know about GS cards,
as I do not have a GS [donations accepted]) that I could post or mail, as
demand requires.

-- 
Mike Jetzer
"Hack first, ask questions later."