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From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Lotus - ver. 2.0
Message-ID: <805@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 17:14:32 EST
Article-I.D.: bucsb.805
Posted: Tue Mar  3 17:14:32 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Mar-87 23:30:51 EST
References: <131@uop.UUCP> <8057@aero.ARPA>
Reply-To: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost)
Organization: ODO (Organization for the Disorganization of Organization)
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Keywords: 123 1-2-3 print spool

In article <8057@aero.ARPA> coffee@aero.UUCP (Peter C. Coffee) writes:
>In article <131@uop.UUCP> rvc@uop.UUCP (Richard Cardoza) writes:
>>
>>	Has anyone out there had any success at getting Lotus
>>version 2.0 to use a spooler?...
>
>I believe you can tell 1-2-3 to print to "DOS Device LPTn:" to make
>it respect things like print spoolers. This should appear as an interface
>option.
>						- PC Coffee

Umm, so far as I have been able to tell, 1-2-3 sends to DOS device
PRN.  I suspect this because:

	* it works on our serial printer when you set prn to use com1:
	  (this is on a true blue AT)
	* it operates correctly through our printer spool
	* we have some REALLY funny hardware that emulates a printer
	  without the presence of a printer card, and it works there, too.

Therefore any spooler that worked by intercepting output to PRN should
work (which is to say, just about every print spooler).

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