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From: toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AST Sprint Spooler slowness
Message-ID: <2889@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 15:14:31 EST
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.2889
Posted: Mon Nov 23 15:14:31 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Nov-87 00:05:04 EST
References: <634@parcvax.Xerox.COM>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: Superspool  slow operation

In article <634@parcvax.Xerox.COM> burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton) writes:
>
>The AST SuperSpool (V1.40) that I recently installed on my system drives 
>my Epson FX-80 printer very slowly compared with non-spooled 
>printing.  

Assuming that you are using the parallel interface, put the argument "/PINT=7"
in the superspool command line to make the printer interrupt driven.
This greatly improved the performance (it always runs full speed now) on
my system.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM