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- Ultimate Print Spooler
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- I know you have probably seen MANY print spoolers in the public domain
- before. But try mine for a while. I have used many before, but still feel my
- version is about the fastest and most flexible. (Slightly prejudiced!) I
- released it to the public domain a while back, but have made some changes and
- want to release the newest version again. I have found it to work much better
- with some of the existing applications and have improved the interface. The
- documentation is a little cryptic! Programmers don't usually like to write
- documentation very well anyways!
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- The program consists of 2 parts:
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- SPOOL.DEV: Device driver to be installed.
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- BUFFERP.COM: Print spooler command control.
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- Configuring spooler:
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- Install the folowing line you CONFIG.SYS file on the boot
- disk:
- device=spool.dev [/option1] [/option2]
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- Where option may be the following:
- Option 1: "/1" -"/64" Decimal digit(s) indicating
- (k)size of memory to reserve for print
- buffer.
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- Option 2: "/L(1,2,3)" or "/C(1,2)". Specifies which
- port is buffered, and becomes STANDARD
- PRN output. Only one may be specified.
- Option "L(1,2,3)" indicates LPT1,LPT2 or
- LPT3 respectively. Option "/C(1,2)" indicates
- Com1 or Com2 port.
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- Thus if the following line is installed:
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- device = spool.dev /l2 /60
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- It means spool the PRN output to LPT2, reserve a 60K buffer.
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- Options are not case sensitive! Options may be installed in
- any order. Any other characters are ignored. Default setup
- is:
- LPT1 and 1K buffer
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- Buffer control:
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- Operating the buffer control program, "BUFFERP" is fairly
- simple. Just execute it at DOS prompt. It will bring up a simple
- menu. Only one command is executed at a time. Pretty self-explanatory.
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- Improvements:
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- I would like to add a couple of more features:
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- 1. Keystroke control for some buffer functions (such as
- print pausing or buffer clear). However the problem
- is that it may interfere with other resident programs!
- So I have avoided doing that. Will probably look into
- the problem more in the next release.
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- 2. Extended printer format support. Add online format control
- to elimnate all the other various little printer utils
- out there that set up printer configs (such as compressed
- print,etc). That problem would require more user customizing
- and lots more code! Maybe will do in future release.
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- 3. Execution of buffer commands on same command line when
- running the bufferp program. Would make life easier, when
- user is already familiar with commands. I myself prefer
- most commands to be as short as possible,avoiding menus!
- This will be implemented in next release.
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- Since I have also graciously released source code for this program you
- might want to add these features yourself! And perhaps return the new
- code to the public domain. If so, PLEASE credit where its due! Also
- please release source code, in the true spirit of the public domain!
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- If you have comments about the program, feel free to contact me at the
- following location:
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- Craig Derouen
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- Heathkit FIDO BBS
- 206-941 6943
- Federal Way,Wa
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- Please share the program with others. Upload it to your favorate bbs!
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