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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Printer spooler
Message-ID: <5440071@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 89 18:45:17 GMT
References: <1989Oct24.231605.26688@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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|Is there a printer spooler that operates like the unix printer spooler:
|it prints all the files in a directory, sequentially by date/time.  With
|a hard disk, this could be a better spooler than one that eats up a chunk
|of RAM and doesn't support queueing and de-queueing (via file deletes).
|

The Neodesk 2.0x printer queue works sort of like you want. It keeps a list of
files to print and works down the list in the order in which the file was put
in the queue. Later versions (2.04 on, I think) incorporate a small 8K
buffer. I rather like this queue, since individual files can be removed or
the order re-arranged without flushing the whole thing.

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Copyright (c) 1989 by Andrew Cassino.
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