Printing files

Select the file to be printed from those listed using:

Print Go

The procedure for printing several files from within SCO Shell is the same as for printing a single file, except that instead of only selecting one file, you use the spacebar to select several files.

When you select the menu item to print a file, the file is sent to the print queue. A print queue is a queue of files waiting to be printed on a specific printer. Because an SCO OpenServer system may have many users, any or all of whom may be printing files, your file may not be printed at once; it is spooled to the back of the queue. If it is the only file waiting to be printed, it is processed at once.

Once you have sent a job to the printer you can carry on with another task; you do not have to wait for the print job to commence or complete.