Short: Printer spooler with graphical user interface Type: text/print Uploader: Reijo Ronkko Uploaded-to: nic.funet.fi:pub/amiga/incoming Upload-date: 930220 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PrintManager 1.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview -------- One of the things Workbench 2.0 (and 3.0) is still missing is a printer spooler. PrintManager is just that. There are some other programs that try to implement a spooler on the Amiga, but: · PrintManager is a system wedge, so it will work with every program, not just ones explicitly written to take advantage of it; · the wedge is installed at parallel or serial device level, so PrintManager will really work with EVERY program: no matter if it uses PRT: or directly the printer device, no matter if it's printing text or graphics. However, PrintManager will NOT work with programs which use PAR:, SER:, or the corresponding parallel and serial device: note that such behaviour is AGAINST Commodore guidelines, so I won't support it. See next point for a good reason... · only printer device calls are cached, so modem and net users will not experiment performance loss. · PrintManager features a graphic interface which you can use to rearrange jobs or pause the printing. · After a system crash or reset, you can recover unfinished printings. This feature may be used to prepare raw data and print it at a later time. Requirements ------------ · OS 2.04 or later · Hard disk is not required but strongly recommended · Printer ;-) Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome. Nicola Salmoria Via Piemonte 11 53100 Siena ITALY At last I have an E-Mail address: MC6489@mclink.it