On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Brett Lymn wrote:

> According to Brook Milligan:
> >
> >Is having several different queues feeding a raw printcap entry
> >driving the printer also the best way to set up multiple queues (with
> >different formating, say) for the same LOCAL printer? 
> 
> IMHO yes that is the best way to set up multiple queues for the same
> local printer.  I don't think that lpd was really designed to have
> many queues pointing at the same physical device.

Though I've not tested it much, I've had success with having multiple
queues point to the same local printer. The trick was to have them all
spool to the same directory. If they used seperate spool directories, the
output of each would get intermixed (not good when one's raw text and the
other's HPGL from GhostScript). When I had both the text and ghostscript
queues pointing to the same directory, the jobs waited for each other.

Though admittedly I've only had different jobs queued up about twice. But
it worked those times.

The advantage is that the output of GhostScript doesn't need to go to a
file, it can just go to the printer. Re-copying ~ 1MB of HPGL is kinda
slow on a mac IIsi!

Take care,

Bill