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Here are a few features (and a couple of bugs) that I've found whilst
giving the SPOOLER system a once over:
1 - With Epson printer selected via preferences, the output of a
vanilla text file gets printed in condensed type regardless
whether PRT: or PAR: is selected as the paramater of the
"prtspool" command.
2 - Some number of characters of the first line of a spooled file
are used as a page header. With PRT: selected, this line on
the first page seems to come out expanded and bold, while on
subsequent pages of that file, it comes out normal-bold. With
PAR: selected, it seems to always come out normal-bold.
The current date is on a line following the page header line
on each page, and "EOF is printed at the end of the file.
3 - A Form-Feed is issued to the printer at the beginning of printing
of each file.
4 - The "spool" command always puts up a "Stack Overflow" requestor
if it is executed from inside Matt'n'Steve's "shell" (v2.05m),
even with STACK 40000. Dunno if this is a "spool" bug, or one
in the "shell".
The "spooler" and "prtspool" commands may be "run" from the shell,
or from a regular CLI successfully, but "spool" itself can only
be invoked from a regular (non-shell) CLI, due to the above.
5 - Killing the CLI(s) from which "spooler" and/or "prtspool" were
started from, will cause it/them to hang until the "spool -shutdown"
command is issued from some other CLI.
6 - The binaries provided had (apparently) been compiled under
Lattice 3.03. I haven't tried recompiling them (yet) under
either Manx 3.40a or Lattice 3.10.
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