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Article 3497 of comp.sys.amiga:
Path: mcdsun!noao!hao!hplabs!nsc!amdahl!kim
From: kim@amdahl.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: SPOOL12 source code
Keywords: SPOOL multitasking printer source
Message-ID: <6176@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 87 02:33:35 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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[ For all you do ... this line's for you ... ]
Here is a good example of a system of multitasking programs that communicate
with eachother using the Amiga's message passing facilities. Together they
form a basic SPOOLing system (shades of VM/CMS!)
Seems like it would be fairly easy to add support for things like special
forms queues, printer priority sorting (based on file size, age, etc.),
routing files to devices other than printers (plotters, LAN's, what-have-you),
banner pages, ...
These programs were written by Tim Holloway, and were published in his series
of articles on using multitasking effectively in the "Ami Project" magazine
(vol. 1, nos. 5 & 6). I downloaded this revision from the Casa Mi Amiga
BBS on 4/5/87, where it is stored as file SPOOL12.ARC. This revision has
fixed several bugs that were present in the published version.
I've done some minimal testing of this using 1.2, with 1 Meg of Fast RAM,
and the programs seem to work well together, with only a few problems (see
the README.TOO file).
Since the uuencoded binaries are > 75K, I'm reluctant to post them to the
net (not knowing how many people would be interested in them), but I have
emailed them to Fred for inclusion in an upcoming Fish Disk. BTW, Fred tells
me he actually *does* get a few hours sleep every couple of days, but I
dunno if I believe that ... :-)!
There should be a .signature at the end unless this gets truncated somewhere!
/kim
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