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Subject: Re: LANspace and LANspool for Novell ne
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Date: 20 Oct 89 09:40:30 GMT
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/* Written  6:26 pm  Oct 18, 1989 by hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au in uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.dcom.lans */
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What about LANspool for setting up workstation printers as system printers on
Novell networks?
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We have been using LANSpool to control around 12 non-dedicated print servers
for well over a year now.  The program works great, especially since the 
latest version, which came out last Jan., doesn't rely on hardware (IRQ7)
interrupts for the printer...  This means that almost any parallel port will
work.   We haven't had any problems with the software, except for an 
occasional VAP connection failure (printing stops, a simple reboot cures).

The program uses Novell's CAPTURE command and other printer support programs
to control printing, so everything is well behaved.  After evaluating some
of the other printing packages, LANspool is by far the best...

BTW, it takes up no RAM in the workstations, 2.5K in the non-ded. print
server PC's, and uses a VAP on the file server.


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Jeff Autor                                "I need a disk de-frag utility 
jsa00564@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu                  for my brain...."
Student at the University of Illinois

Also Affiliated with Valmont Electric
Opinions (and facts) expressed are my own.
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