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Just thought that I would post some continuing questions and comments 
that I have concerning MS Windows.  I have never really obtained sufficient
answers for these.

- How come the spooler will only queue up to 20 jobs?  Can I override
this? How did you find out, if yes?
  - I have an application that prints out data reports.  Reports can
    be N pages long and the user may only want to print page N so they
    want to be able to pick any pages.  Therefore we print each page
    as a job.  Seems to be a fairly simple yet standard request???

- Driver or Printer?  The HP-PaintJet is so slow we have decided to
  buy new printers (looking at the Tektronics color printers...).  How come
  windows, or the Paintjet driver, will not let us get more than six colors
  printed?

- Periodically, especially when doing print spooling, the main menus of the
  parent window loose some charasters.  For example:
        File  Plot  Re-Config  Edit
  soon become
        Fil   Plo   Re-Confi   Edi
  It seems to occur when control changes between applicatons during requests
  being sent to the spooler?????

- How do you tell how much ext. or exp. memory you have (like in the about
  selection in win386)?  GlobalCompact et al work on the 640k limit only and
  do not return this information (I think).

- When will Microsoft alter the installation so that merely changing a 
  pointing device or terminal does not require re-installing the complete 
  system?  Isn't this what device independence implys somewhat?

- There seems to be a problem when running two applications (different or not)
  that access different printer libraries.  What I mean is App A starts spooling
  to a plotter.  Then control.exe changes the printing configuration, and App B
  starts to a different printer.  We ususally get a system "freeze".  Why
  is windows letting me do this if it is wrong?

Thanigs, thats all for now, please reply to this newsgroup or send mail
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