🚀 go-pugleaf

I would also like to add a change in Filemaker Pro that was made to solve
one problem and, in my opinion, created a bigger one.  Because of the 
IW II's insistence on moving back and forth every time a new page starts,
and the annoyance this caused users of Filemaker II who printed out
hundreds of labels, Claris made the decision to spool the set of records
needed to be printed to disk before actually sending them to the printer.

The problem is that if one wants to print a few hundred records (as in
invoices) one has to wait for a very very long time (as in almost an hour
on a Mac SE) to see the first page printed out in an IW.  Not only that
but if something goes wrong (as in loosing connection with client) and
something always goes wrong, one waited almost an hour and never saw any
invoice coming out of that poor IW, and has to go through the process
again (and time=invoice=money).  

Now, I admit that spooling is a nice idea, but half spooling is bad one.
It is also nice to know that Claris wants to reinvent the wheel in
Filemaker, they reinvented network filesharing and now spooling, but 
that I see it as their responsibility to make it as good or better than
the existing software or concentrate in doing a good database management
program and let the spooling to others.

By the way, the explanation about the IW and the labels is from a letter
from Claris as a response to a complaint.

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