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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Device Driver that's a Spooler?
Keywords: device,driver,spooler,print,printer
Message-ID: <1990Sep22.052132.19068@uwasa.fi>
Date: 22 Sep 90 05:21:32 GMT
References: <442@modcomp.UUCP>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <442@modcomp.UUCP> kshaffer@modcomp.UUCP (Ken Shaffer) writes:
>Is there a PD device driver available that installs a device that
>is a spooler?
>I wish to modify my config.sys with a statement of the form:
>     device=spooler.sys
>At this point, I should be able to write to a device called for
>example, SPOOL: and have output directed to the spooler.
>The spooler should accept input and write to a disk file and
>simultaneously read from a disk file and write to a configureable
>printer (lpt1, lpt2, ...).

Am I on a completely wrong track, but doesn't the standard MsDos PRINT
command partly achieve what you are after?  (No, this is not a jibe,
I'm saying this seriously.)

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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