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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: SPOOL size
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.231720.8722@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Aug31.202727.6357@news.iastate.edu> <tdukes.920831154949@alva.ee.eng.auburn.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:17:20 GMT
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- In article <tdukes.920831154949@alva.ee.eng.auburn.edu> tdukes@eng.auburn.edu (Todd J Dukes) writes:
- >Is there any way to limit the size of the file created by SPOOLing
- >the printer. I printed out a rather large document (~160 pages) and
- >the SPOOL file ate up all the space on my hard drive. Then OS/2 gave
- >a warning about write fail writing to the SPOOL file. I waited a while
- >and then pressed the Retry button. OS/2 locked up. I have to ctrl-alt-del.
-
- Excellent question. Apparently, no, although you can turn off the
- print queue (to have the application wait on the printer) so that no
- spooling takes place.
-
- Look in OS/2 System -> System Setup for that control.
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