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Subject: Re: Amiga Print Spooler
Message-ID: <6791@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 05:13:52 GMT
References: <25F5DC80.5028@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Reply-To: porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka)
Organization: Michigan State University
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In article <25F5DC80.5028@orion.oac.uci.edu> mnelson@vmsa.oac.uci.edu writes:
>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

>takes FOREVER to time out (i.e. generate that cute little requester) if
Well, ah I once wrote a printerdriver and set the timeout to something
small. Guess what? I kept getting those damn requesters because the
printer can't keep up with the computer. (yes the printer has a 2kbuffer).


Smart alec respoce: Try "alias SPOOL run type [] to prt:", which
of course only works one file at a time.
hmm Should be able to do it with a shell script or two:

In the file S:DOIT
	lab top
	list SPOOL: lformat="type *"%s%s*" to prt:" to t:xyz FILES
	execute t:xyz
	wait 1 min
	skip back top

Then in the file S:SPOOLIT
	.KEY file/a
	copy <file> spool:tmp/<file>
	rename spool:tmp/<file> spool:<file>  ;This avoids nasty conditions

Remember to say "protect s:spoolit +s" and "protect s:doit +s"
and "run doit" from your startup-sequence.

This requires that SPOOL: is assigned someplace (like ram:) and that
it have a subdir "tmp".  These scripts should work, but I have not
actually tried it (hell, I just thought it up just now)




AmigaDOS question: the TYPE command is obviously VERY slow. Is this
intentional, so as to allow people to see stuff before it zips of the
top of a window? 
 Joe Porkka   porkka@frith.egr.msu.edu