pcb@usl.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) (01/13/89)
Just thought that I would post some continuing questions and comments
that I have concerning MS Windows. I have never really obtained sufficient
answers for these.
- How come the spooler will only queue up to 20 jobs? Can I override
this? How did you find out, if yes?
- I have an application that prints out data reports. Reports can
be N pages long and the user may only want to print page N so they
want to be able to pick any pages. Therefore we print each page
as a job. Seems to be a fairly simple yet standard request???
- Driver or Printer? The HP-PaintJet is so slow we have decided to
buy new printers (looking at the Tektronics color printers...). How come
windows, or the Paintjet driver, will not let us get more than six colors
printed?
- Periodically, especially when doing print spooling, the main menus of the
parent window loose some charasters. For example:
File Plot Re-Config Edit
soon become
Fil Plo Re-Confi Edi
It seems to occur when control changes between applicatons during requests
being sent to the spooler?????
- How do you tell how much ext. or exp. memory you have (like in the about
selection in win386)? GlobalCompact et al work on the 640k limit only and
do not return this information (I think).
- When will Microsoft alter the installation so that merely changing a
pointing device or terminal does not require re-installing the complete
system? Isn't this what device independence implys somewhat?
- There seems to be a problem when running two applications (different or not)
that access different printer libraries. What I mean is App A starts spooling
to a plotter. Then control.exe changes the printing configuration, and App B
starts to a different printer. We ususally get a system "freeze". Why
is windows letting me do this if it is wrong?
Thanigs, thats all for now, please reply to this newsgroup or send mail
to
pcb@usl.usl.edu csnetjimw@microsoft.UUCP (Jim Walsh) (01/14/89)
In article <629@usl.usl.edu> pcb@usl.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes: >Just thought that I would post some continuing questions and comments >that I have concerning MS Windows. I have never really obtained sufficient >answers for these. > >- How come the spooler will only queue up to 20 jobs? Can I override >this? How did you find out, if yes? > - I have an application that prints out data reports. Reports can > be N pages long and the user may only want to print page N so they > want to be able to pick any pages. Therefore we print each page > as a job. Seems to be a fairly simple yet standard request??? > It probably isn't a good idea to print separate pages of a report as separate jobs, whether in the Windows environment or not. One simple reason is that the print spoolers on many networks like to insert blank pages, header pages, or other goodies between jobs. Thus, if your app was run on such a network, your could get 2 or 3 sheets of paper for each page of your report - not what you (or the user) would probably want. Thus, you should probably try to modify your printing code to write out the entire data report as one job. I would also think that it would be somewhat counter-intuitive to a user to see 10 or 20 jobs in his print spooler queue when he printed one report, especially if he had multiple Windows apps generating output to the spooler (jobs could be inter-mingled). -- Jim Walsh jimw@microsof.beaver.cs.washington.EDU Microsoft Corporation jimw@microsof@uw-beaver.ARPA jimw@microsof.UUCP The views expressed herein are not necessarily mine, let alone Microsoft's...