DOS-73 owies

[John Campbell]

A few other posters admitted to owning DOS-73 boards.  I have one as
well (shame, shame) and my "significant others" like to use WordStar
on it (shamer and shamer, but you try teaching vi/nroff to my family).

Anyway, I had the following happen this morning.  A "family member"
went to print out a document from inside WordStar (which had been
working after I set things up months ago) and WordStar "printed" the
document to /spool/lp/request/Epson.  Normally there is a slight pause
and the document starts spooling out to the printer.

This morning, however, the document just stayed there and no one picked
it up and started printing the document.  After I convinced myself this
was reality, I rebooted the system.  (It was one of those, run FSCK twice
kind of *scary* reboots, by the way.)  I looked in /lost+found, but the
two files there seemed innocuous--a history file and some sort of "init"
record.  (Hmm, maybe this file wasn't innocuous?)

Anyway, you guessed it, the reboot did not "fix" the problem.  Now I have
to think (darn).  Anyone have an idea what really happens after a file
is placed in /usr/spool/lp/Epson?  How does DOS-73 turn it over to unix?
Is there a cron job I should look for?  Does my fsck nasties indicate I
should rebuild DOS, reformat the disk, reload all of unix?  What straw
would you grab?

Thanks--and for those who don't have a DOS-73 board, congratulations!
-- 
	John Campbell               ...!arizona!naucse!jdc

	unix?  Sure send me a dozen, all different colors.