Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!scafidi From: scafidi@eosp1.UUCP (Tony Scafidi) Newsgroups: net.micro.trs-80 Subject: Model 4 Spooler Problem (an answer?) Message-ID: <627@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 17:24:53 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.627 Posted: Wed Feb 29 17:24:53 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 06:25:40 EST Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 28 . A few weeks back I posted an article about my problems with using the extra bank of memory as a print spooler. I reported that I received an "Internal Error" from BASIC and a "43 - SVC parameter error" from TRSDOS. I posted the article with the hopes of getting back even one response that could get me on the right track. (I did receive three. One told me his father sold the system because of this problem and the other two didn't read my article and told me to read the manual. A warm *flaming* thanks to those two.) I did look into the problem further and found out that the @bank SVC call returns an ERROR 43 when the stack pointer is not less than '7fee'. I wrote a quick assembly language program to save the stack pointer and called it from BASIC. It showed that the stack pointer was at 'f632' or there about. This explains the problem. The stack is in bank 1 and the spooler cannot swap out the bank. I have written Radio Shack in Fort Worth, and if I ever get a response with a fix, I'll post it here. The extra memory is great if you want the fast disk that the memDISK driver gives you, but if you want 32K of spooler memory, then you better wait until Radio Shack fixes it or find a system that really supports it. Next time I am going to wait until the system is out for a few years and the bugs are out. Tony Scafidi ..!allegra!eosp1!scafidi .