User's Guide for MS-DOS Clients

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Enhanced Reference
Command and Utility Summary
Generally, you should not delete spool files from the working directory, as doing
so could disrupt a remote print job. All spool files are deleted at the end of the
print job.
This option does not affect LAN Manager Print Station in the nonspooling
mode.
/D
Removes LAN Manager Print Station from memory. This option cannot be used
with any other options.
This will free all memory reserved for caching spool files, as well as freeing the
memory used for the program itself. It will cancel any jobs that have not com-
pleted and will remove the computername from the network’s list of available
servers. You can restart LAN Manager Print Station any time after you have suc-
cessfully removed the program from memory.
In some instances, other applications may hook the interrupts that LAN Man-
ager Print Station chained when the program was started. If this happens, the
printsta /D command will be unable to unhook those interrupts and will con-
tinue to use a small amount of memory to handle them. In this case, you will not
be able to restart LAN Manager Print Station until you have rebooted your com-
puter.
Comments
The workstation running LAN Manager Print Station must be running
MS-DOS version 3.3 or later and LAN Manager version 2.1a or later.
LAN Manager Print Station uses only conventional memory. The default
configuration uses just over 6K of memory. If you allow more than the
default number of spooled files, network buffers, and/or remote connections,
or if you increase the cache size, the memory requirements can be as much
as 51.4K. If you use the minimal configuration with the spooler enabled, you
can reduce the memory requirements to 5.4K. For low-memory
configurations, you can disable the spooler, lowering the memory
requirements to 5.0K. If disk space is not available for temporary files, it is a
good idea to disable the spooler. However, if the spooler is disabled, users
who send print jobs to this printer will be unable to use their workstations
until their print job is done.
LAN Manager Print Station can only be reached via the first protocol on the
workstation sharing the printer. Usually, this is the first protocol listed in that
workstation’s PROTOCOL.INI file. However, the order of protocols can be