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From: kik@wjh12.harvard.edu (Ken Kreshtool)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Multispool - Does it work with Appletalk Deskwriter v2.1????
Message-ID: <601@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 01:28:47 GMT
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Reply-To: kik@wjh12.UUCP (Ken Kreshtool)
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In article <00947FE6.6E6CB240@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) writes:
>In article <597@wjh12.harvard.edu>, kik@wjh12.harvard.edu (Ken Kreshtool) writes:
>>For what it's worth, MultiSpool works great for me (IIsi printing serially to a
>>DeskWriter, DW 2.1 driver).
>
>>Only "problems" are trivial.  
>>...And it seems only to recognize printers attached to
>>the printer port.  
>
>	Not true.  My printer is attached to the modem port (I use a Plus, 
>DW2.1, serially connected, & system 6.0.5).

Sorry, JP.  On my IIsi, MultiSpool does NOT work when the printer is attached
to the modem port.  Has nothing to do with Freedom of Press compatibilitie
>
>>And FofP includes a gizmo called FPSpooler
>>that needs the printer attached to the modem port because of the way it and the
>>Mac deal with AppleTalk being on while printing non-AppleTalkedly.  
>
>	This sounds more like a conflict between Multispool and FoP.  As I 
>say, using the modem port is not a problem.
>
>           John Price * * * * price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu
>           Where there is no solution, there is no problem.

And as I say above, it has nothing to do with FoP versus MultiSpool (in fact,
FoP seems to ignore MultiSpool; at least, it prints through the modem port even
while MultiSpool is stacking ordinary DeskWriter-bound files in its queue and
saying -- wait a sec while I find out what it is saying -- Whoa!  The damned
thing just started printing the way JP says it will!  Not this afternoon, not
yesterday, not seven or eight times since I downloaded it, but right now, just
as I am replying that once and for all that it won't work....it suddenly starts
to work!  Don't that beat all!

Well, I guess my advice regarding MultiSpool is that if it doesn't do what you
want it to do the first eight or ten times, don't give up.  And if you have
anything else that's broke, just have John Price tell you it ain't and then try
to prove him wrong!

Ken Kreshtool
kik@wjh12.harvard.edu

(and if it stops working again, I'll just show it JP's posting again...)