chas@tira.uchicago.edu (Charles Blair) (12/28/90)
I've written my own int 5h handler. What I want to do is to make it act like a print spooler, so that I can let the application it is a part of get on with other work while stuff is printing -- this is a problem when I drive the printer in graphics mode. What's a good way to approach this problem? I've thought of installing the int 5h handler as a device driver, but I still don't really understand how to accomplish the spooling. What's the trick? Does the driver grab some kind of interrupt and keep looking at a buffer from which it prints, returning if the buffer has no data? Is this the trick? (In that case, I could simply grab some interrupt in my application, and accomplish the same thing.) Thanks. I prefer e-mail, and I'll summarize, if there is interest. -- Bitnet: pmrcjdb@uchimvs1 Internet: cjdb@midway.uchicago.edu