North Star DIMENSION Service Manual page 72

TROUBLESHOOTING
Printer Problems (cont.)
Symptom
Explanation
Solution
In DOS,
shared
printing used
to be
possible, but
now it isn't.
Even turning
the machine
off/on doesn't
help. Files
don't even
appear in the
print list.
You may have
attempted to
spool a file
larger than
one megabyte.
If this is the
case , the file
hung in such
a way that it
is in the
spool
partition but
is listed as a
"lost chain."
In other
words, the
spooler space
is used up
and it can't
be
deallocated.
Perform a diskette boot, and run CHKDSK E:\F.
(CHKDSK may be found on System Diskette #2.) If
lost chains are located , they will be converted into
files called FILE0000 . CHK, FILE0001.CHK, etc. Delete
these files and reboot from the fixed disk. Break the
large file into several smaller files and send them to
the spooler at intervals that permit the buffer to clear.
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