Here are a few features (and a couple of bugs) that I've found whilst
giving the SPOOLER system a once over:


    1 - With Epson printer selected via preferences, the output of a
        vanilla text file gets printed in condensed type regardless
        whether PRT: or PAR: is selected as the paramater of the
        "prtspool" command.


    2 - Some number of characters of the first line of a spooled file
        are used as a page header.  With PRT: selected, this line on
        the first page seems to come out expanded and bold, while on
        subsequent pages of that file, it comes out normal-bold.  With
        PAR: selected, it seems to always come out normal-bold.

        The current date is on a line following the page header line
        on each page, and "EOF is printed at the end of the file.


    3 - A Form-Feed is issued to the printer at the beginning of printing
        of each file.


    4 - The "spool" command always puts up a "Stack Overflow" requestor
        if it is executed from inside Matt'n'Steve's "shell" (v2.05m),
        even with STACK 40000.  Dunno if this is a "spool" bug, or one
        in the "shell".

        The "spooler" and "prtspool" commands may be "run" from the shell,
        or from a regular CLI successfully, but "spool" itself can only
        be invoked from a regular (non-shell) CLI, due to the above.


    5 - Killing the CLI(s) from which "spooler" and/or "prtspool" were
        started from, will cause it/them to hang until the "spool -shutdown"
        command is issued from some other CLI.


    6 - The binaries provided had (apparently) been compiled under
        Lattice 3.03.  I haven't tried recompiling them (yet) under
        either Manx 3.40a or Lattice 3.10.


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