Title: FastSpool
Short: Fast data transfer over the parallel port (v0.10)
ShortName: fastspol.zip
Author: Andreas Dehmel (dehmel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)
Date: 8-may-96
Status: Freeware
Archiver: SparkFS
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Description:

FastSpool is an application to send data over the parallel
port much faster than by using the parallel: filing system.
The speed you can obtain is largely dependent on the kind of
device you've got there. When it's a printer you'll probably
only notice a difference over using standard methods if it's
a laser printer since other printer types are usually too
slow to keep up with this kind of data flow. I get about 80kB/s
with my HP LJ5 in contrast to the 16kB/s I get using standard
methods. This means *5 times the speed*!

Drawbacks: it's rather hardware-specific in that it can only
work with computers where a 82C710, 82C711 or compatible chip is
driving the parallel interface, for instance the A5000 and the
RiscPC series. It won't work on older machines.