[Freedos-user] Print spooler suggestions.

[G.W. H. <fr...@ju...>]

Hi there,

Does anyone have any recommendations or suggestions for print spoolers?

I'm looking for something that can replace the venerable "Super-PCKWIK"
which according to my notes hasn't worked for me since January 2000.  I
guess that's about the time I upgraded the box to 64MBytes of RAM. :(

Ideally, the spooler would sit between whatever application DOS is
running and the printer, cache all the output to the printer in EMS
memory (which is plentiful) and let the application carry on doing
stuff whilc it feed the cached data to the printer as fast as the
printer can swallow it.  This is more-or-less what PCKWIK did when
it was working.  Now it just crashes at boot.  In case it matters,
the printer in this case is the parallel port printer (LPT1:).

AFAICT the PRINT.COM which comes with MS-DOS only uses the base 640K
of RAM so it's no use to me.  On a bad day, I'll be needing to cache
about 5 MBytes of print data.

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73,
Ged.