Pete, I am definitely not an expert in this: I think there are spool settings for having the output go directly to the printer bypassing windows spooler (printer starts/stops the printing as needed). This does not allow you to work on your PC during printing, but also does not fill up the available memory for spooling and lock the PC (trade off). Might try a different setting next time.
Dan KI6X -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pete Smith Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 5:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dx4win] difficulty with big print job (v. 5.01) Today I printed 914 pages of QSLs -- 4 QSL cards ("labels") to a page. During the print run I had a number of Windows print spooler errors, each of which told me to restart Windows in order to resume. I did, and each time used the print range parameter to minimize duplication as I picked up where I had left off (e.g., restart at page 414, attempt to print to the end, made it to page 650, restarted again, etc.). The last such restart was only about 10 pages before the end of the print run. When it completed, and I clicked close, it asked me if I wished to give today's date as the QSL date and clear the print flags. I said yes, and then checked to see how many records had been so marked. The answer was 47 (out of some 4500). Now of course I can just clear all the print flags and call it done, but that means that 4500 QSOs that should have a QSL date will not. I thought that maybe I could print to a file, and after that get another chance to supply QSL dates for all the QSOs. The program appeared to be writing to a file, but when it hit page 914 it simply hung, with the hard disk LED flashing occasionally. After an hour or so, I shut it down. Is there ANY way to mark all the records in 2001 that currently have label = y with a QSL date, short of actually reprinting them on scrap paper or something? Thanks for any suggestions! 73, Pete N4ZR Sometimes a tower is just a tower _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
