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From: pj@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Paul Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Spooler Question
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Date: 27 Oct 89 04:05:04 GMT
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Darren writes: 
>>there anything out there now that will background  the printer.  The spooler
that came with my PCPC drive only seems to work with an Imagewriter I or II.
Any ideas anybody?
<<

I have recently discovered and started playing with an INIT called MultiSpool.
It is by Giuseppe Carnevale of Napoli, Italy.  It is a hybrid
INIT/DA/application that installs at startup time as an INIT, is accessed as a
DA, and runs background printing as an Application!  How does he do that??
  In any case, it seems to work very nicely on my INIT-laden SE/30 under
System 6.0.4.  The DA allows you to monitor and alter the print queue.  Files
are spooled to a folder in the System Folder, and printing can be suspended
and resumed at will.
  It seems to be very MF friendly--more often that not IT will pause, rather
than grinding your application to a halt.  I have noticed that it appears to
flush the event queue when it has to access the spooled files from
disk--keystrokes and mouse clicks simultaneous to disk access will be lost.
  Other than that, it looks to be very stable at version 1.0.
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