Hi Donna,
  I just went through this the other day.  After finishing with sysgen and
keying the doionow command you should endup with a device that says SPOOLED.
Then after added the printer to NPCONFIG you do a STARTSPOOL ### and the
device will say SPOOLED   SPOOLER OUT.

hope this help

Steve


> hi all!
>
> i'm curious about something....  so, you've gone into sysgen
> and added a printer (and a native network printer if it
> matters, but i don't think so).  the 'mode' field (in
> sysgen) includes an 's' -- indicating the device is to be
> spooled.  after doing all the appropriate holds and keeps,
> you exit sysgen and do a 'doionow' and viola (:-) -- a new
> printer suddenly exists.
>
> what i'm wondering is -- should that printer be spooled
> (out)?  (right now, no intervening spool-ish commands)  i
> always thought so, but i'm hearing otherwise from our remote
> support folks.       - d
>
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