Printer queue query

[Johanna Rothman <JR@YUKON.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM>]

    Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 11:09 EDT
    From: jo@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM (Jonathan Ostrowsky)

	Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 12:20 EDT
	From: pan@Athena.Pangaro.Dialnet.Symbolics.Com (Paul Pangaro)

	OK, so I have the Print system loaded, but I dont want to send a big
	file to the queue (maybe  my LMFS is too tight for space). Is there a
	way to force printing to go directly to the printer, without going into
	the printer queue first (obviously the printer is on this same machine).
	Disabling services, or stopping the printer queue does not seem to work.
	Thanks.

	Best,
	PANgaro

    The cure might be worse than the disease.

    If you can squeeze out the FEPFS space to grow your LMFS, you probably
    should.  Bypassing the print spooler to print a big job means that
    you'll be watching "Serial Out" in your status line for far longer than
    you'd care to surrender use of your machine.

    I have a printer attached to my machine (to the console serial port,
    actually) and once printed something before I loaded the print system.
    It's ugly.

The last time I tried this, a long time ago in 7.2 Beta, I was able to
print files and screen dumps without using the print spooler.  If you
have the print spooler loaded on your machine, you must halt it first.
All caveats about speed should be noted!