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           W E L C O M E   T O   D I S K   S P O O L   II

Use the PageUp, PageDown, and the  keys to move about this display.
When you're ready to exit, press the ESC key.



INTRODUCTION
------------
Welcome to DISK SPOOL II.  There are several ways to get to know
DISK SPOOL II better.  First, every menu tier has a HELP selection.
By pressing the letter 'H', help text pertaining to this tier
will be displayed.  Second, you can view the User's Guide by taking
the 'L' (Learning) menu selection from the primary tier, and then
the 'U' (User's Guide) menu selection  (Also, you can print the User's
Guide ... it's the file SP2.DOC).  Lastly, a very good way to
get to know DISK SPOOL II is to go into the configuration program
(SP2CFG).  As you move the cursor over the various options, a
complete description of the option is shown at the bottom of the
display.

Please note that you may tailor the Help Text file (SP2.HLP) if
you want to include your own helpful hints and information.  To do
so, simply go into your text editor, locate the menu tier, and add
or change the text to suit your needs.  DISK SPOOL II uses the
first letter(s) of the menu keying sequence preceded by a special
control character (that looks like a period when displayed interactively)
in order to find the appropriate help text.  Therefore, the only thing
you need to worry about is not destroying these control lines.


Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:


'S' (Spooling)
--------------
Allows you to control the Spooler; namely, to enable it or to
disable it.  When Spooling is enabled, then data sent to LPT1,
or to whichever port you designate (refer to (V)alues (S)poolport
menu selection) will be intercepted and re-routed to the "current"
Spool File.  Note that the top part of the pop-up menu tells you
which file is the "current" Spool File.  With the SP2.COM version
of DISK SPOOL II, you can also spool data being sent to a COM port
from an external source.   This "COM port monitoring" function takes place
in the background.

When Spooling is disabled, then all data goes directly to the
output port, thus bypassing DISK SPOOL II altogether.

Regarding the Spooler, there is another feature of DISK SPOOL II
called Auto Spool File.  With this feature enabled, DISK SPOOL II
will automatically create a new spool file for each document.
By default, it will create the spool file with the following attributes:

  Copies       - 1
  Despool Port - The Despool Port as designated in the configuration
                 program (SP2CFG).
  SAVE status  - If the Dynamic Resize parameter as designated in the
                 configuration program is set to YES, then the file will
                 be deleted after printing.  Otherwise, it will be saved.
  HOLD status  - NO  (refer to the discussion about Auto Despool in the
                 section just below where option 'D' Despool is described.)

However, you may use the file SP2.DAT to override these default values.
In SP2.DAT key in a line for each program application you wish to override.
The following example overrides the default attributes for any spool file
created by the application SP2PRT:

 SP2PRT COPIES:2 SAVE:Y HOLD:N PORT:LPT1


DISK SPOOL II senses the end-of-document by two means:

      - A time delay (the length of which you may designate
        using the configuration program SP2CFG).
  or, - When an application ends.

The (F)iles (L)ist menu option will show you all of the files that
have been thus created.  From this display, you can view the
contents of a spooled file (or any other file, for that matter),
delete a file, designate a file to be printed, or change the
attributes.

Auto Spool files are placed in the same directory that you have
designated in configuration to be the default spool directory.
So, if you utilize this feature, it is wise to configure a
directory other than the root directory, since DOS places a
restriction on the number of files that the root directory
may contain.

Important Note:  Due to limitations in DOS, using a DOS command
to effect printing does not work along with DISK SPOOL II.  Do not,
for example, use the PRINT command.  And, do not key in the command
TYPE filespec > LPT1 to print text files.  Use, rather, the command
supplied on your diskette called SP2PRT.  This will perform the
same functions as using a DOS command ... namely, it will effect
the printing of a text file.  In fact, you can use this command
whether or not spooling is enabled.  Here are some examples:

     SP2PRT filespec LPT1  -- prints a file to LPT1 (and if DISK
                              SPOOL II is spooling LPT1, it will
                              re-direct the output to disk.

     SP2PRT filespec COM2  -- prints a file to COM2.

     SP2PRT filespec       -- prints a file to LPT1.

Note however, that if you cannot get away from using the TYPE or
the COPY commands to effect printing, then load SP2 with an "L"
command line parameter  (Ex: SP2 L).  This will create the largest
possible internal buffer, and will therefore allow this many bytes
to be spooled from within such a DOS command.  The undesirable part
of this, though, is that DISK SPOOL II will take up 64k of memory
if loaded with the "L" command line parameter.

'D' (Despooling)
----------------
Allows you to control the Despooler.  When the Despooler is enabled,
it works in the background sending data to the output port.  When the
Despooler is disabled, then this does not take place.

There are two different modes of operation regarding the Despooler:
Auto Despool enabled, or disabled.

With Auto Despool disabled, then the Despooler is "attached" to only one
file.  If you spool data into that file, the Despooler will print from it.
You may manually "attach" the Despooler to a different file by taking the
(F)iles (A)ttach (D)espooler menu sequence, or by keying a 3 next to a
file from within the (F)iles (L)ist display.

With Auto Despool enabled, as soon as the Despooler finishes with one file,
it looks for the another one to print.  Auto Despool goes hand-in-hand with
the Auto Spool function described just above.  With Auto Spool, seperate
files are created for each application.  The Autodespooler then prints
these files.  Any file that is not HELD (or "finished") is available for
printing.  If a file is HELD, you may release it by keying a 6 next to it
from within the (F)iles (L)ist display.


'F' (Files)
-----------
Allows you to perform functions pertaining to the spooled files;
namely, to designate a different Spool File or Despool File; to
display the contents of the "current" Spool or Despool Files; and
to clear the data contained in either of these files.  Additionally,
there is an option to List files.  This option displays a list of
files whose names meet a user definable selection criteria.  And
from this display, you can do things like selecting one or more of
the files for viewing; deleting one or more files; and attaching
the Spooler and/or the Despooler to one of the files.

'V' (Values)
------------
From this menu selection you are able to change various DISK SPOOL II
values.  These include, the ports that are to be spooled,
the port to send despooled data to, and the printer speed values.

'L' (Learning)
--------------
Takes you to the menu tier from where you can display the User's
Guide.  Another selection from that tier, called TimingTests,
gives you the ability to do both Spooling and Despooling timing tests.

In the case of Spooling timing tests, you can see how long it takes to
spool a document with DISK SPOOL II versus the time it takes to print the
same document without spooling enabled.  This timing test gives you a
way of measuring the effectiveness of a spooling environment on your machine.

In the case of Despooling, the timing tests show you how quickly DISK SPOOL II
is despooling information versus how quickly data is printed in a non-spooling
environment.  It literally shows bytes/second averages for data being printed
out.  This timing test function can also be used to fine tune your despooling
speed.  (See the chapter in the User's Guide entitled Fine Tuning Printer
Speed for more information.)

'T' (TLOG)
----------
This menu selection allows you to work with the LOG facility.  When enabled,
the LOG facility will automatically maintain a log of de-spooling activity.
This is handy for persons doing computer printing on behalf of paying clients.

∙S
┌────────────┐
│ (S)pooling │
└────────────┘

Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:


'E' (Enable)
------------
Allows you to enable to spooling process.  Once spooling is enabled,
data sent to any of the ports that you have designated from the
(V)alues (S)poolport menu will be re-routed to the "current" Spool
File.  Note that the name of the "current" Spool File is displayed
at the top part of the pop-up menu.

If the Auto Spool File feature is enabled, then DISK SPOOL II will
create a new file for each document printed.

'D' (Disable)
-------------
Allows you to disable the spooling process.  Any data sent to an
LPT or a COM port will go directly to that port, thus bypassing
DISK SPOOL II altogether.  Note that the status of the spooling
function does not affect what is happening with the despooling
process.  In other words, even though spooling may be disabled,
you can still be despooling.  In fact, if you have two printing
devices, you could be despooling to one of them, while in the
foreground -- with spooling disabled -- be printing to the other.
In this manner, both printers will be active at the same time.
(Note: another more affective means of driving multiple printer devices
at the same time is to load multiple copies of DISK SPOOL II into memory
at the same time.  Refer to the User's Guide under the chapter Other Features
of DISK SPOOL II for further information.)

'A' (Autospool)
---------------
With Auto Spool enabled, the Spooler will create a different spool
file for every document that is printed.  With Auto Spool disabled, data
is spooled to the "current" Spool file.  Refer to the Help text in the
(S)pooling (A)utospool tier for a more detailed discussion of the
Auto Spool function.

∙SA
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ (S)pooling  (A)utospool │
└─────────────────────────┘

Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:


'E' (Enable)
------------

With Autospool enabled, DISK SPOOL II will automatically create a new
file for each document.  By default, the file will be created with the
following attributes:

  Copies       - 1
  Despool Port - The Despool Port as designated in the configuration
                 program (SP2CFG).
  SAVE status  - If the Dynamic Resize parameter as designated in the
                 configuration program is set to YES, then the file will
                 be deleted after printing.  Otherwise, it will be saved.
  HOLD status  - NO  (refer to the discussion about Auto Despool in the
                 section just below where option 'D' Despool is described.)

However, you may use the file SP2.DAT to override these default values.
In SP2.DAT, key in a line for each program application you wish to override.
The following example overrides the default attributes for any spool file
created by the application SP2PRT:

 SP2PRT COPIES:2 SAVE:Y HOLD:N PORT:LPT1


DISK SPOOL II senses the end-of-document by two means:

      - A time delay (the length of which you may designate
        using the configuration program SP2CFG).
  or, - When an application ends.

The (F)iles (L)ist menu option will show you all of the files that
have been thus created.  From this display, you can view the
contents of a spooled file (or any other file, for that matter),
delete a file, designate a file to be printed, or change the
attributes.

Auto Spool files are placed in the same directory that you have
designated in configuration to be the default spool directory.
So, if you utilize this feature, it is wise to configure a
directory other than the root directory, since DOS places a
restriction on the number of files that the root directory
may contain.

The Auto Spool function works hand-in-hand with the Auto Despool function.
With Auto Despool enabled, the Despooler will go right down the list of
spooled files, and print those that are not HELD.  If Auto Despooling is
not enabled, then to print a spooled file, take the (F)iles (L)ist
menu sequence and key a 3 next to the file you wish to print.

'D' (Disable)
-------------
Disables the Auto Spool feature.  Spooling reverts back to the
file that was the current Spool File at the time the Auto Spool
feature was enabled.

∙D
┌──────────────┐
│ (D)espooling │
└──────────────┘

Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:


'E' (Enable)
------------
Allows you to enable the despooling process.  With despooling
enabled, spooled data is sent to the printer in the background.
With despooling disabled, this process does not take place.  Note
that the despooling status is not tied to the spooling status.  If,
for example, spooling were enabled and despooling disabled, then
data would be stored in the Spool File for printing at a later time,
or on a different machine.

The way in which the Despooler behaves depends on whether or not
the Auto Despool function is disabled or enabled:

Auto Despool disabled
---------------------
Data contained in the file to which the Despooler is currently attached
is printed.  When all of the data is printed, the Despooler suspends itself
until more data is spooled to that file, at which point the Despooler
becomes active again.  You may change the despool port by taking the
(V)alues (D)espoolport menu selection.

Auto Despool enabled
--------------------
Auto Despooling goes hand-in-hand with Auto Spooling.  Auto Spooling
creates seperate spool files for each document printed.  The Autodespooler
prints one document, and then goes on to the next.  It constantly monitors
the files being created by the Autospooler.  If the file is not HELD, then
it gets printed.  When the file has been printed, and if the SAVE status
is NO, then it is deleted off of disk.

The Auto Spool and Auto Despool combination make for a very powerful spooling
environment.  You set up spool file attributes for each of your commonly run
applications in the SP2.DAT file.  Then let DISK SPOOL II handle all of your
printing requirements in the background.

One interesting note:  although data is generally despooled directly to
a printer device, DISK SPOOL II also gives you the ability to
direct the Despooler to send data to a disk file or to
a device driver.  One reason why you might want to despool to a disk
file would be to feed the spooled data into a work processor or into
a spread sheet.  You see, DISK SPOOL II comes pre-configured to
compress spooled data onto disk so that as little disk space as is
necessary is taken up. You could change this configuration using the
SP2CFG program, or you could simply despool to a disk file.

A reason for wanting to despool to a device driver might be, for
example, if instead of having spooled data be despooled directly to
a port, you wanted to feed it into another process.  A case where
this would be appropriate is where your system is hooked up to a
printer hardware sharing program, which program is expecting to
receive data being sent to LPT1.  If the despooler were sending
data directly to the port, then it would bypass that program.  So,
to get around this, you despool instead to device driver LPT1.
(Note: another -- and probably more effecient -- manner to feed data to
another process is to configure DISK SPOOL II to send data by means
of BIOS routines, as long as that process hooks into the BIOS interrupts.)

To despool to a disk file or to a device driver, you key in
SP2 @xxxxxxxx, where the 'x's represent the name of the file or of
the device driver.  You can reconfigure DISK SPOOL II in this manner
without having to take DISK SPOOL II out of memory.  You can cancel
this "redirecting of the Despooler" function by keying in SP2 @.

Note that only 8 characters are allowed after the @ when designating
the name of the disk file.  This includes the disk drive and path
descriptions.  Furthermore, when despooling to a disk file, it is
wise to designate a drive and a path, even though these items are
optional.  This is because the despooler is operating in the
background, and if you should change your current directory, then
part of your disk file would possibly end up in this new directory.


'D' (Disable)
-------------
Allows you to disable the despooling process.  With despooling
disabled, background processing of the Despool File does not take
place.

Note that you can disable the despooler, and then pick up exactly
where you left off by taking the Despooling Enable End menu option.
This might be useful if you just wanted to quiet the printer while
you did your work.  Also, you can disable the Despooler, and then
start it back up so that it begins printing at the beginning of
the document that was currently printing.  This is useful if you
get a paper jam.

Note that sometimes when you take the Disable option, a little
time passes before the Despooler is actually stopped.  This is
so that it can finish what is currently in the despooler buffer.
If you truly want to be able to instantaneously stop the Despooler,
then go into the configuration program (SP2CFG) and disable the
Compress feature.


'A' (AutoDespool)
-----------------
Allows you to enable or disable the Auto Despool function.  With
Auto Despooling enabled, the Despooler processes all files created by
the Auto Spooler.  It goes from one file to the next, automatically.

With Auto Despooling disabled, the Despooler remains "attached" to the
current Despool file.  Any data sent to that file will be despooled.


∙DE
┌───────────────────────┐
│ (D)espooling (E)nable │
└───────────────────────┘

Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:


'B' (Beginning)
---------------
Tells the Despooler to start printing at the beginning of the
"current" Despool File.

'D' (Document)
--------------
Tells the Despooler to start printing at the beginning of the
"current" document of the "current" Despool File.  To understand
what this means, you must first understand a little about how
DISK SPOOL II functions.  If after spooling data, a certain amount
of time elapses before another character is spooled, DISK SPOOL II
places a special control character out in the Spool File.  The
Despooler keeps track of where it encountered such a control
character, thus enabling it to know where to start printing when
you take this menu option.  You can configure the length of the
elapse time by using SP2CFG.

This menu option is particularly useful when your printer jams.


'E' (End)
---------
Tells the Despooler to pick up exactly where it last left off.  You
may, for instance, want to disable despooling in order to quiet the
printer, or to change the ribbon.  Then you can pick right up
where you left off by taking this menu selection.


Note that there is another very useful way of designating where the
Despooler is to begin printing.  You can start the Despooler at any
spot you wish within the Despool File by taking the Files Display
Despooler menu selection, positioning the display to where you
want to begin printing, and then pressing the 'P' key.
If the Despooler is disabled when you do this, then start the
Despooler using the (D)espooling (E)nable (D)ocument menu sequence.



∙DA
┌─────────────────────────────┐
│ (D)espooling  (A)utoDespool │
└─────────────────────────────┘

Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:


'E' (Enable)
------------
With Auto Despooling enabled the Despooler behaves in this manner:

Auto Despooling goes hand-in-hand with Auto Spooling.  Auto Spooling
creates seperate spool files for each document printed.  The Autodespooler
prints one document, and then goes on to the next.  It constantly monitors
the files being created by the Autospooler.  If the file is not HELD, then
it gets printed.  When the file has been printed, and if the SAVE status
is NO, then it is deleted off of disk.


'D' (Disable)
-------------
With Auto Despool disabled, the Despooler behaves in this manner:

Data contained in the file to which the Despooler is currently attached
is printed.  When all of the data is printed, the Despooler suspends itself
until more data is spooled to that file, at which point the Despooler
becomes active again.  You may change the despool port by taking the
(V)alues (D)espoolport menu selection.

∙F
┌─────────┐
│ (F)iles │
└─────────┘

Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:


'A' (Attach)
------------
The "current" Spool and/or Despool Files may be changed by taking
this menu selection.

'L' (List)
----------

By default, when this display first comes up, it shows all files
in the default spool directory (as configured by SP2CFG) whose extention
is the default spool file extenion as configured by SP2CFG.  Furthermore,
if either Auto Despool or Auto Spool is enabled, then only those files
created by the AutoSpooler are displayed.  By pressing F6, different
scan criteria may be designated.  Note that if Auto Despooling is enabled,
then this is the display that comes up first when the hot-key sequence is
depressed.

The following options may be taken from this display:

1 - display the contents of the file.  Note that you can display the contents
    of any file, whether it be one that was created by DISK SPOOL II, or not.

2 - attach the Spooler to this file.  Subsequent printed data will be added
    to the end of this file.  You can only take this option on a spool file
    created by DISK SPOOL II.  If you wish to have a non-DISK SPOOL II file's
    data be part of a spool file, use the SP2PRT command, which spools that
    file's data into the "current" spool file.  Note that if Auto Spool is
    enabled, then the 2 option is not available.  This is because in Auto
    Spool mode, DISK SPOOL II is creating a new file for each document printed.

3 - attach the Despooler to this file.  This file's data will be despooled.
    You can only take this option on a file created by DISK SPOOL II.  If you
    wish to despool the contents of a non-DISK SPOOL II file, use the SP2PRT
    command to first spool the file's data.  Note that if Auto Despool is
    enabled, then the 3 option is not available.  If you want to start printing
    a particular file, then HOLD the other files by keying option 4.  If the
    file you wish to print has a status of HELD or FINISHED, then release it
    by taking option 6.

4 - HOLD a file.  This makes it so the Auto Despooler bypasses printing this
    file.  To release it for printing, take option 6.

5 - change a file's attributes.  You may change the description, the number
    of copies, the output port, and the SAVE status.

6 - release a file.  The Auto Despooler will process this file.

9 - Delete the file.  Any file, whether it be a DISK SPOOL II file or not can
    be deleted using this option.


An extremely useful feature of DISK SPOOL II is that if it should
happen that your disk drive fills up while spooling is taking place,
then DISK SPOOL II pops up the menu.  You can then go into this (F)iles
(L)ist display a delete files in order to make more room out on disk.
You can also change the Spool File drive designation by taking the (F)iles
(A)ttach (S)pooler menu sequence.  In this case, the remainder of the data
being printed will reside out on the new drive.  No data will be lost.

'D' (Display)
-------------
Allows you to display the contents of the "current" Spool or
Despool file.

'C' (Clear)
-----------
Allows you to clear the "current" Spool or Despool file.  Note that
DISK SPOOL II really does shrink the file down to 33 bytes.  Thus
your valuable disk space is not taken up.

There are other ways that your Spool and/or Despool files can be
cleared:

 -- You can always use DOS' DEL command.  Don't worry if you delete
    the "current" Spool File.  DISK SPOOL II will create a new one
    if it needs to.

 -- You can configure DISK SPOOL II to clear the "current" Spool
    and Despool files if, upon loading the program into memory,
    it senses that these files have been completely despooled.

 -- You can configure DISK SPOOL II to dynamically resize the
    "current" Despool File as it get despooled.  This is the option
    to take if you do a heavy amount of printing, or if you are
    limited to disk space.  If DISK SPOOL II is configured this way, then
    every spool file created by DISK SPOOL II will have the attribute of
    SAVE NO by default.  However, data in SP2.DAT overrides this default.

∙FA
┌──────────────────┐
│ (F)iles (A)ttach │
└──────────────────┘

Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:


'D' (Despooler)
---------------
Enables you to designate which file to despool from.

'S' (Spooler)
-------------

Enables you to designate the name of the file to spool to.  An
interesting designation is to leave out the drive id and/or the
path.  In this manner DISK SPOOL II will create a spool file in
whichever drive/directory it currently finds itself.  This is
a good way to keep spooled files segregated.  (Note that another
way to keep spooled files segregated by document is to take the
(S)pooling (A)utospool (E)nable menu sequence, or to configure DISK
SPOOL II with Autospool enabled.)


∙FC
┌─────────────────┐
│ (F)iles (C)lear │
└─────────────────┘

Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:


'D' (Despooler)
---------------
Enables you to clear the "current" Despool File.

'S' (Spooler)
-------------
Enables you to clear the "current" Spool File.

∙FD
┌───────────────────┐
│ (F)iles (D)isplay │
└───────────────────┘

Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:


'D' (Despooler)
---------------
Enables you to display the contents of the "current" Despool File.
From that display, you can instruct the Despooler to begin printing
at any location in the file by first positioning the top line of
the display to where you wish to begin printing, and then pressing
the 'P' key.  If your De-spooler is disabled when you do this, then
start it up using the (D)espooling (E)nable (D)ocument menu
sequence.


'S' (Spooler)
-------------
Enables you to display the contents of the "current" Spool File.

∙L
┌────────────┐
│ (L)earning │
└────────────┘

Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:


'U' (UserGuide)
---------------
Display the User's Guide (found in file SP2.DOC).

'T' (TimingTests)
-----------------
TimingTests gives you the ability to do both Spooling and Despooling
timing tests.

In the case of Spooling timing tests, you can see how long it takes to
spool a document with DISK SPOOL II versus the time it takes to print the
same document without spooling enabled.  This timing test gives you a
way of measuring the effectiveness of a spooling environment on your machine.

In the case of Despooling, the timing tests show you how quickly DISK SPOOL II
is despooling information versus how quickly data is printed in a non-spooling
environment.  It literally shows bytes/second averages for data being printed
out.  This timing test function can also be used to fine tune your despooling
speed.  (See the discussion in the User's Guide in the Fine Tuning DISK SPOOL II
chapter for more information.)

∙LT
┌──────────────────────────┐
│ (L)earning (T)imingtests │
└──────────────────────────┘

Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:


'E' (Enable)
------------
By taking this menu selection, you are instructing DISK SPOOL II
to maintain timing tests statistics.  You can view these statistics
by taking the (O)pen menu selection.

There are two types of timing tests that can be performed.  Only one type
of timing test can be performed at a time by DISK SPOOL II ... either
spooling or despooling.  To switch between one or the other, take the Toggle
menu option.  With the timing tests window open (see menu selection (O)pen,
below), you can see which timing test is in affect at the moment.  If it's
the despooling tests, the highlighted heading says "Bytes printed/second".
The spooling timing tests window's highlighted heading says "Seconds  Bytes".

- Spooling timing tests measure the amount of time that an application spends
  sending data for printing.  With Spooling enabled, the number of bytes, and
  the amount of time are accumulated on the W/ DISK SPOOL line.  If Spooling
  is not active, then these same statistics are accumulated on the Without
  line.  By having an application print the same document twice, once with
  Spooling active, and once without, you can vividly see how much time
  DISK SPOOL II is saving you.

- Despooling timing tests displays the speed at which the printer is actually
  printing data.  If the Despooler is enabled, then the value is computed and
  displayed on the W/DISK SPOOL line.  If the Despooler is not enabled, then
  the value is computed and displayed on the Without line.  Note that although
  DISKS SPOOL II almost always will be despooling a very acceptable speed,
  under certain applications this will not be the case.  If you are not
  satisfied with the printing speed, quite a bit of improvement can be
  achieved by "fine tuning".  Refer to the chapter in the User's Guide
  entitled Fine Tuning Printer Speed.  The despooling timing tests is used
  as a tool to measure printing speed.

'D' (Disable)
-------------
This menu selection instructs DISK SPOOL II to suspend the gathering of
statistics.  The values obtained thus far are not erased.

'O' (Open)
----------
Open the timing tests statistics window.  This window will be
maintained and shown on the display even when you exit the pop-up
menu.

'C' (Close)
-----------
Close the timing tests statistics window.  If the timing tests
statistics are Enabled, then they will still be maintainted, even
though the window is not open.

'S' (SpoRst)
------------
Resets the "W/ DISK SPOOL" statistics back to 0.

'N' (NonspoRst)
---------------
Resets the "Without" statistics back to 0.

'T' (Toggle)
------------
Toggles between the spooling timing test and the despooling timing test.

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│ (T)LOG │
└────────┘

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'E' (Enable)
------------
Enables the LOG facility.  A file called SP2.LOG will be maintainded
automatically, and it will contain despooling activity information.
This file will continue to grow indefinitely, so you will want to delete it
periodically.  It is okay to delete it even while in the middle of despooling.

'D' (Disable)
-------------
Disables the LOG facility.

'C; (Client)
------------
This menu option enables you to designate a client's name, rate, and
billable flag.  These values will be written to subsequent log records.


∙V
┌──────────┐
│ (V)alues │
└──────────┘

Here is a description of the menu options for this tier:

Please note:  The Outbytes and the Retry values are used for
fine tuning DISK SPOOL II's printing speed.  Under most circumstances,
DISK SPOOL II will drive the printer just as fast as possible, even if you
have a laser printer.  Just about the only exception to this is if the
job running in the foreground runs for long periods of time without
requesting input from the keyboard.  If you have such a situation, then
you will want to refer to the User's Guide chapter entitled DISK SPOOL II
Performance for directions on how to determine the best Outbytes and Retry
values to configure.


'O' (Outbytes)
--------------
If your despool method is configured to "Hardware Interrupts", then
this value has no meaning, since with this setting, the printer
device itself drives the despooling process.  Otherwise, the
Outbytes value represents the number of bytes of data that the
computer is going to try to send at each "timer tick", which
"timer tick" occurs approximately 18 times per second.

'R' (Retry)
-----------
Like the Outbytes value, if your despool method is configured to
"Hardware Interrupts", then this value has no meaning, since the
printer device totally drives the despool process.  Otherwise,
this value represents a relative amount of time that DISK SPOOL
II will wait if it has not succeeded yet in sending Outbytes
number of bytes during the "timer tick" before trying to send the
the next byte.

'S' (Spoolport)
---------------
This selection enables you to designate one or many ports that
DISK SPOOL II is to spool.  When a port is so designated, then
any data sent to that port is re-routed to the Spool File.

The COM1 Input and the COM2 Input designations allow you to
intercept and reroute data coming in from an external source.
DISK SPOOL II will route this data to a seperate file from the
Spool File; namely, if the data came from COM1 the file name
used is MONCOM1 and it is placed in the same directory and with
the same file extension as the defaults of the Spool File.  In a
similar manner, if the data came from COM2, it is placed in
MONCOM2.

'D' (Despoolport)
-----------------
This option enables you to designate the port to which the Despooler will
send its output.  Note that if the Autodespooler is active, then the
proper way to designate the output port is to change a spool file's
fttributes.  To do this, take the (F)iles (L)ist menu sequence, and key a
5 next to the file that you wish to change.


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