Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!amdahl!dwl10 From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Print Spooler Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 90 15:23:50 GMT References: <11927@spudge.UUCP> Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX Lines: 37 In article <11927@spudge.UUCP> thorp@spudge.UUCP (Don Thorp) writes: >Does anyone know if there is a print spooler for the Amiga? I'm to the point >that I'm disgusted with copying files to the PRT: device and having to kill >the printer to stop a print job. Before I write a print spooler, I'd like >to know if one already exists. > >Don Thorp > I use PrtSpool, from Fish disk #216. It consists of a PRT: dos-handler, that copies your print files to a spool area. It then prints the spooled files. Since it replaces PRT:, it is totally transparent to application programs. It come with the PRT: handler, and a program you can use to control the spooled files, such as cancel a print, delete a spooled request, and start or stop the printer. It also comes with a print formatting program, that will page & line number your printout, if you wish. One of the really neat things about it is if you give the print file a file name when you open it, such as PRT:fish-xref, it will show up that way in the spool list. That way you know which file is which. If the printout is a graphic dump, the spooler is bypassed, and the graphic dump goes directly to the printer. The only real hassel is that it is binary only. I didn't like the print formating program, and ended up writing my own. I highly recomend this program. I have had NO problems with it. -- "This ain't Rock 'N Roll, | These be my words, not my employer's! this is Genocide!" |Dave Lowrey - Amdahl Corp. - Houston, TX David Bowie - |In Texas: {moray,uhnix1}!starsoft!david "Daimond Dogs" |The World: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (amdahl!dwl10)