CompuServe Messages

A few things, Dave. Release 11's AUTOSPOOL feature can now invoke a spooler and pass it the file name of the plot file that was just created. Waiting for AutoCAD to drop a file into the spooler directory is no longer necessary. IBM DOS 4 did support XON/XOFF (with the MODE command). DOS 5 does not. The PRINT command's time slice is adjustable with the /s and /m switches. PRINT can't handle 8-bit binary data because DOS traps ^Z, ^C, ^I, etc. and PRINT seems to insist on sending a final formfeed (^L), so it will work for most HP plotters, but will probably fail with Calcomps and Epson printer plotters.