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From: murdock@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jon Kyle Murdock)
Subject: Re: Multispool - Does it work with Appletalk Deskwriter v2.1????
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In article <00947F69.3589E420@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) writes:
>In article <371@pacvax.UUCP>, eaton@pacvax.UUCP (Mark W. Eaton) writes:
>>Sorry, I seem to have created a minor firestorm here with an earlier reply 
>>that seemed to indicated the MultiSpool works with the DeskWriter.  The 
>>only way in which I have gotten it to work reliably is to spool things to 
>>it, wait until I am ready for a break and then let it print.  I have never 
>>gotten it to work reliably while I continue working on the Mac.

I'll add my two cents as well...
I've been using MultiSpool on my SE/30 with a serially connected DeskWriter
and 2.1 drivers. I couldn't get it to work before with 2.0 drivers.
There doesn't seem to be much, if any, speed degredation (sp?) in either
the printing or foreground task as long as neither is too complicated
(i.e. it works fine if I print a file and go back to my word processing).
I seem to remember it crashing if I exited an application during printing
with the earlier drivers (2.0).

                            Kyle Murdock
                            murdock@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
                            murdock@ksuvm.ksu.edu