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I love this group!  I came in this morning and found emailed responses
to my question already. (If only life was as easy -- sigh).  
Here's the summary for anyone else who may be interested:

The gist of my question was --

In article <1992Nov16.233222.10433@research.nj.nec.com> yoko@research.nj.nec.com (Yoko Ozawa) writes:
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YO> The CAP is running on a Sun and everything seemed fine [on System 7]
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YO> Instead of giving us a beautifully sorted printer list, the System 6
YO> Chooser only provides a partial list (only 10 instead of ~20 printers)
YO> in random order.

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In response
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Christopher Davis <ckd@eff.org> wrote --

CKD> The System 6 Chooser has a rather, um, undersized buffer.  As you
CKD> have found out the hard way.  Live with it or upgrade...

Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@barsoom.nhh.no> wrote --

TIH> That's the System 6 Chooser.  It works that way...  I doesn't sort
TIH> its lists, and it has only a small buffer for the service info, so
TIH> with many services and/or long service names, you won't see all of
TIH> them.  As a workaround, the user can open the Chooser,  scroll through
TIH> to the bottom of the list, and, if the wanted service is not found,
TIH> then wait.  New services seen will be added to the bottom of the
TIH> list, making it possible to scroll further down.  Repetition will
TIH> happen, but after a while (longer if you'e in a hurry, of course),
TIH> the needed service will show up.
TIH> 
TIH> Shorter service names will help, of course.
TIH> 
TIH> On the other hand, you might want to upgrade to 7...  :-)

I tried Tom's suggestion and the missing printers appeared (after a
few seconds each, and much repetition of the scroll-down-and-wait
procedure).  Goes to show you ... you can never be too impatient!  ;-)
Our System Administrator is playing with Zones now to see if this
would help to shorten the service list.

Obviously, as both Chris and Tom recommended, upgrading to System 7 is
the BEST way to eliminate the problem.  With the System 7 users
showing off the additional features, there IS a growing
"bite-the-bullet" sentiment in the user community.  That, and the fact
the 7.1 is already here, so one version below (7.0.1) doesn't seem as
bad -- can't be TOO backward, can we?  (Wish me luck!)

Thanks to you both!!!


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