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Re: Where is print output from Word spooled ?

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From: James Scott Hardin
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 00:00
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You have to set the spool file location from the registry.... Just be sure
and back up the registry hive.
Hope this helps!

Scott Hardin, MCPS
jshardin@msn.com

John Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<OHr8bEAPgm$xEwk6@wookie.demon.co.uk>...
> I have a problem with MS word 7.
> 
> We frequently have to print off a 10 page document with a few full page
> 150 dpi bit maps in it.
> 
> Any manipulation of these seems to cause a huge amount of swapping even
> on a P/133 with 64 meg of RAM. Print manager also reports that each
> document uses about 11 meg of disk when spooled.
> 
> We typically print off about 70 documents at a time so we need about a
> gig of space to spool in as well as a fair bit of swap space I guess.
> 
> At the moment, I get the impression that Word is spawning a task or
> thread which should generate all the output, but this is failing
> ( giving no error report ! ) once it runs out of disk space ( spool or
> swap ? ).
> 
> I can put more drives in the system, but I need to know how to configure
> Word and the print spooler to use them.
> 
> I guess setting the swap drive is easy, but where does spooled output
> live ?  How do I configure windows to use some nominated path ?
> 
> 
> Cheers, J/.
> -- 
> John Beardmore
> 
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Subject: Re: Where is print output from Word spooled ?
Date: 1996/08/01
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