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- Documentation for SpoolCtrl.rexx - an ARexx script for controlling the
- spool control program, PrintC, which is part of the print spooler
- archive, DanSpl14.lzh. You will need that archive in order to make use
- of this script. You will also need ARexx, arp.library, and
- rexxarplib.library. The latter two are available on BBSs everywhere.
- ARexx is available from William Hawes, Wishful Thinking Development
- Corp., P.O. Box 308, Maynard, MA 01754 or from your friendly Amiga
- retailer.
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- Operation of this program should be self-evident. The window will
- contain various gadgets for controlling the spooler. Selecting Cancel
- will present a file requestor. You can select multiple files from the
- default SPOOL: directory to cancel the jobs. Spooled files are of the
- form prtnnnn where nnnn is a number from 0001 to however many jobs are
- in the queue. The Next and Last gadgets produce a file requestor from
- which you can select one file to move either to the top or the bottom
- of the queue. Suspend and Resume work as you would expect, they either
- suspend or resume spooling. The Print gadget will bring up a file
- requestor to select a file to print using the Print program. If you
- don't wish to use Print to print a file, then just ignore it. Query
- will open a shell window and display current information on the content
- of the queue. The two top gadgets, Enable and Disable spool directory
- either assign SPOOL: to a default directory which contained in this
- script in the variable, spoooldir. You can change this to the one you
- use. Disable simple does an Assign SPOOL: to de-assign the directory.
- Spooling is dis- abled when you do this. The bottom left gadget,
- Create is used to create a SPOOL: directory of your choice if you don't
- create the assignment during boot-up. The Quit gadget should be
- obvious. You can pass a default directory for SPOOL: when you run this
- script -- Spooler dir -- is the syntax.
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- This script is provided as public domain and may be changed or
- modified in any way. I make no claims that it is fully debugged or
- without flaws of any kind. All executables called by the script should
- be in your search path or they may not be found.
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