VECTOR GRAPHIC,
INC.
RESULT:
The
spooler
will be
deactivated,
or
one
of
the
other
messages below will
appear on your screen:
SPOOLER CLOSED spooler has been successfully activated.
SPOOLER
NOT
AC'l'lVE
spooler
has already been deactivated, or
if
the
. spooler gets an I/O error of some sort.
BAD
WRITE
spooler
encounters
a disk
I/O
error
when
trying
to
write the last sector.
CLOSE
ERROR
spooler
encounters
a problem writing
to
the directory
or trying
to
spool
to
a deleted file.
The
DSPL Command
The
DSPL
command will desgool the specified. file
to
a specific print device.
The format of the
command
line is as follows:
FORMAT:
DSPL
n<
d:fnename [RETURN)
Where n is
the
print
device (either 1 or 2), and < will optionally turn
on
the
auto-paging function.. The filename must be unambiguous. The
despooler
runs
in "background", i.e., the despooler
may
be printing
to
the
list
device
and
the
user can continue with
some
other task, such as editing another file.
EXAMPLE:
. A>DSPL
a<
D:BECORIl.SPL [RETURN]
.~~~
RESULT:
After
the
command is
entered,
one of the following messages will display on
the terminal giving the status of
the
despooler.
VIli-14
DESPOOL ACTIVATED despooler has been activated successfully.
DESPOOL ALREADY ACTIVE despooler has been asked
to
work
on
more
NO FILE
than
one file
at
a time. .
despooler cannot find
the
specified file
on
that
disk, or
the
file
has
not
yet
been spooled.
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