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From: miller_h@apollo.HP.COM (Herbert Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Looking for help with dBASE overflowing the print buffer
Keywords: dbase
Message-ID: <4d6f1a08.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 15:32:00 GMT
Sender: root@apollo.HP.COM
Reply-To: miller_h@apollo.HP.COM (Herbert Miller)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA
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I use dBASE IV with a Laserjet IIP w/2Meg.  When I print large reports,
dBASE gets way ahead 
of the printer and tries to tell me that the I have a printer error. 
The real problem is just that the print buffer
is full.  I'm getting really sick of waiting for a few pages to print,
telling dBASE to retry, having it timeout, wait some more, etc.  Anybody
know of a way to make dBASE do real spooling?  It seems to me that if
WordPerfect can tell the difference between a full print buffer and a
real printer error there's no excuse for dBASE not too.

Thanks in advance,
Herb Miller

Hewlett-Packard           Apollo Systems Division
MS: CHD-02-CS             508/256-6600  x4220
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Chelmsford, MA 01824      EMail: miller_h@apollo.hp.com