SPOOLER PROGRAM -- SOFTAMENTATION 
FROM 80 MICROCOMPUTING (MARCH '80)


A SPOOLER ENABLES YOU TO DUMP TEXT TO A DISK FILE INSTEAD OF YOUR PRINTER.  THIS ALLOWS YOU TO CREATE LENGTHY TEXT FILES WITHOUT WAITING FOR HARD COPY.FOR EXAMPLE, A LONG DISASSEMBLY OF A MACHINE LANGUAGE PROGRAM WOULD BE SAVED AS A DISK FILE INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE PRINTER.  YOU CAN LATER PRINT THIS FILE BY USING THE PRINT COMMAND IN DOS OR BY USING THE DESPOOLER PROGRAM INCLUDED ON THIS DISK.

THE SPOOLER PACKAGE ENCLOSED CONSISTS OF THREE PROGRAMS.  THE SPOOLER FILE, CLOSE FILE AND DESPOOLER FILE.

SPOOLER:
WHEN THIS PROGRAM IS CALLED IT RESPONDS WITH "SPOOLER FILESPEC?". YOUR REPLY WILL CREATE A FILE. ALL DATA WHICH WOULD NORMALLY GO TO THE PRINTER, WILL INSTEAD GO TO THIS FILE.  THIS TEXT FILE WILL BE FORMATTED EXACTLY LIKE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IF IT WAS SENT TO THE PRINTER.

CLOSE:
THIS PROGRAM CLOSES THE FILE OPENED BY THE SPOOLER PROGRAM.  THIS FILE MUST BE EXECUTED AFTER USING THE SPOOLER OR YOU MAY CLOBBER YOUR DIRECTORY.

DSPOOL:
THIS ALLOWS YOU TO SEND YOUR TEXT FILE TO THE PRINTER, WHILE YOU ARE DOING OTHER PROCESSING.  THE ONLY REQUIREMENTS ARE THAT THE REAL TIME CLOCK MUST BE ACTIVATED AND THE PROCESSING YOU ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING DOES NOT USE THE PRINTER.  WHEN THIS PROGRAM IS CALLED, IT PROMPTS YOU WITH "DESPOOL FILESPEC?".  TYPE THE NAME OF THE TEXT FILE YOU WANT TO SEND TO THE PRINTER.  THIS FILE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE CREATED BY THE SPOOLER PROGRAM.

NOTES:
IF YOU ARE USING THE 32K VERSION SET YOUR MEMORY SIZE WHEN IN BASIC TO XXXXX, AND USE XXXXX FOR 48K MACHINES.  IN NEWDOS YOU CAN CALL THE SPOOLER USING THE FORMAT CMD"SPOOL48".  THE CLOSE PROGRAM IS NOT NEEDED FOR THE DESPOOLER.  THERE ARE TWO VERSIONS OF SPOOL, DSPOOL, AND CLOSE ON THIS DISK.  ONE FOR 32K AND ONE FOR 48K.  THESE ARE DESIGNATED BY EITHER "32" OR "48" IN THEIR FILESPECS.
