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Having recently received the upgrade to TOPS and TOPS Spool, I was
pleased to note that "TOPS Spool now works correctly with LaserWriter
6.0 ... and with PageMaker 3.02."  Swell!  'Cept neither TOPS nor Aldus
mention that this compatibility collapses if one has a Postscript
printer with a font storage hard disk (for example, a LaserWriter II NTX
or a Varityper VT-600).  The fix, by the way, is to edit the Aldus Prep
files.

With that out of the way, you'd think everything would be perfect,
right?  Wrong!  Something goes awry when TOPS Spool is active on a IIci
running Multifinder.  The DA won't come up, spooled files won't print,
and the menu bar gets filled with garbage characters.  All these
problems go away when running under the Finder.

I can't find my TOPS support brochure (I think I threw it at something
while trying to track down the solution for the first problem -- anybody
have TOPS' AppleLink address?), so does anyone know anything about this
particular difficulty?

thanks,

-mike "just gimme my personal fileshare, apple, and i'll toss the darned
tops                                                .      disks right
into the trash " rose