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From: doug@fryeten.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Device Driver that's a Spooler?
Message-ID: <4.2703253c@fryeten.uucp>
Date: 28 Sep 90 17:26:03 GMT
References: <442@modcomp.UUCP> <447@modcomp.UUCP> <116.2701c06a@wanda.waiariki.ac.nz>
Organization: Frye Electronics, Inc., Tigard OR
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> It's a print spooler called DMP201.  It intercepts output to the specified
> device (say, PRN:), and spools it in the background to disk, standard or
> extended/expanded memory, or a combination of these.  So, your users can keep
> printing the way they are used to, and once the file is spooled (should only
> take a few seconds), your server is available again.  It replaces DOS' PRINT
> command, and redirection via MODE.
> 
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> Oh, yes, and it does a form feed after each job.
> 
> The only thing it can't do that PRINT allows you to do is delete individual
> files from the queue, because it treats the print job as a continuous stream of
> data.
> 

I would be very interested in getting a copy of this spooler.  I have a couple
that do almost exactly what you've described except that they do not print a
form feed between jobs.  This has been a real pain when I move software from
systems that rely on the spooler to do this work for them at the end of a job.  
I'm curious as to how it determines that the end of a job has occurred.  Does
it look for a ^Z and then convert it to a form feed or what?-- 

-doug

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