Re: [Freedos-user] Print spooler suggestions.

[Eric A. <e....@jp...>]

Hi!

Are you saying that Super-PCKWIK has a year 2000 bug?

https://archive.org/details/superpckwikdiskaccelerator111

says it would be a disk cache, does it also buffer print data?

Regards, Eric

PS: Version 1.11 of 1986 might not be the right version, I guess.



> 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.
>