powsner@csb1.nlm.nih.gov (Seth M Powsner) (02/23/91)
My appologies in advance if this is trival, out of date, or actually a
frequently asked question.
Our office administrator is using Excel on a PS/2 50 with whatever
version of Windows was included over a year ago (2.2?). It all basically
works. When she wants to generate output for our Apple Laserwriter
she has to select PostScript (defined to go into a file),
print, exit Excel / Windows, and run a batch file to transfer the file
to the Laserwriter via AppleTalk network. There's not enough room for
the networking software and Windows to co-exist on her 1Meg machine.
So far so good.
The question is whether there is some way to collect more than one piece
of output in the printer file. She often needs to print 3 or 4 different
spreadsheets for comparison. If she prints them one after another in the
"obvious" fashion, which works fine for her locally attached dot matrix
printer, only the last spreadsheet is found in the PS output file.
Is there some WIN.INI setting or printer setting we've overlooked?
Do we have to install some print to file TSR before starting up Windows
(pretend we have an LPT3 and let the postscript stuff flow on out into
a file)? Would it be better under Windows 3? Is the upgrade reasonably
priced? Is it worth the effort (no one else in the office uses Windows
nor has any inclination)?
--- Thanks in advance, Seth M Powsner
powsner@nlm.nih.gov powsner@YaleMed.Bitnet