buchanan@utcsri.UUCP (John Buchanan) (11/27/86)
Does any one out there have a good printer spooler. I am currently working on a program for listing text files on printer/screen. If any one has any suggestions or other comments please email me. However if any one is working on a printer spooler here are some challenges. 1) Enable another desktop icon which we will name PRINTER. In order to print a file I do a copy from disk to printer icon. Files are cued in a FIFO fashion. At any point I should be able to open the icon and delete any files that have not been printed. 2) If I start printing the spooler will generate a generic file name and store all incoming data as a file. If I can exit my application and then enter the printer icon in time then I can delete the output. 3) I do not know how would handdle files currently beeing processed. 4) Maybe we could attach a time handdle on files and have them print out at midnight or at some other time. 5) How about an option to overflow onto hard disk if we happen to be lucky enough to own one. Well these are some ideas. How about more ideas or if you have a couple of months to kill try to implement 1-->? If any one has a printer spooler please mail me and tell me how I can get my hands on it. *****REPLACE THE ABOVE MESSAGE WITH YOU LINE ****** john buchanan buchanan@CSRI PATH? whereever life leads me
laba-1aj@WEB.berkeley.edu (10/25/89)
Is there a printer spooler that operates like the unix printer spooler: it prints all the files in a directory, sequentially by date/time. With a hard disk, this could be a better spooler than one that eats up a chunk of RAM and doesn't support queueing and de-queueing (via file deletes). A somewhat related question: How does GEM feel about TSRs and ACCs opening, using, closing, and deleting files? I've read that they should not do such things. What about file buffer space: is there a way to increase the number of files allowed open? & John Kawakami & laba-1aj@web.berkeley.edu & Live each day as if it were your first
andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) (10/26/89)
| |Is there a printer spooler that operates like the unix printer spooler: |it prints all the files in a directory, sequentially by date/time. With |a hard disk, this could be a better spooler than one that eats up a chunk |of RAM and doesn't support queueing and de-queueing (via file deletes). | The Neodesk 2.0x printer queue works sort of like you want. It keeps a list of files to print and works down the list in the order in which the file was put in the queue. Later versions (2.04 on, I think) incorporate a small 8K buffer. I rather like this queue, since individual files can be removed or the order re-arranged without flushing the whole thing. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are those solely of the author, who has no pecuniary interest in the companies mentioned. Copyright (c) 1989 by Andrew Cassino. Permission for distribution on USENET hereby granted. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Andy Cassino % % uucp: hplabs!hplsla!andyc domain: andyc%hplsla@hplabs.hp.com % % Hewlett-Packard Lake Stevens Instrument Division % % 8600 Soper Hill Road Everett, WA 98205-1298 % % (206) 335-2211 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%