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- Version Changes
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- 2.0 First GEM Spooler 2 version
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- 2.1 GEM Spooler now has movable dialog boxes.
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- New option: prompt for job settings. GEM Spooler can now
- ask for the job settings in every GEM program, whenever a
- job is added to the queue.
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- Let'em Fly users can now also enable the shortcut option.
- Let'em Fly had problems with the resource file of version
- 2.0 while scanning for the shortcuts: it bombed on blanked
- G_TEXT objects. Although it shouldn't, we adapted our
- resource a little... (for your convenience)
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- "Activate burst mode ?" will not appear if there are no jobs.
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- The "Bytes printed" indication is now correct (version 2.0
- displayed the bytes printed for each block only)
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- 2.1b GEM Spooler survives resolution changes on the TT
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- 2.2 GEM Spooler 2.2 is faster ! The standard evnt_multi() call
- was replaced by an alternative 'multi-event' call, that doesn't
- burden the stack. The net result is a faster spooler.
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- Cosmetic change: the mover in the GEM Spooler dialogs has been
- restyled (it looks nearly the same as Flydial or Mydial movers)
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- The problems with Tempus and with the Butler James clock are
- solved. These problems were caused by interrupt collisions
- between GEM Spooler and Tempus or James. Nobody's fault,
- because this was caused by a peculiarity of TOS when dealing
- with interrupts.
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- New option: Intelligent filter (Setup). With this option
- set, GEM Spooler will check if a file really contains text
- before activating the filter. If the filter was set for a
- binary file, GEM Spooler will ignore it. This lets you set
- the filter always ON, no matter what file has to be spooled !
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- Filters now have a real name (16 characters). GEM Spooler
- will show this name in the Printer dialog instead of the
- filename (which happened to be GSPOOL2.CTB all the time).
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- The names of the buttons User1, User2, User3, User4 can now
- be changed in the PDF file.
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- The Job dialog will now give the name of the job instead of
- "(this job)".
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- All utility programs use MyDial by Olaf Meisiek, featuring:
- movable dialogs, shortcut buttons etc.
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- Serial printing avoids problems with input-output redirecting
- programs (solution suggested by Atari ST ProfiBuch)
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- A terrible bug has been removed: if the buffer size was too high
- (e.g. 64Kb), the spooler didn't print. Sorry for this one !
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- Steven Van Rossen, August 1992
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