Document Number: NIPRSUP1005
Product: NIPrint (any version)
Date: 7-2-97
Title: Shorten spooling directory length

Shorten spooling directory length
NIPrint allows printing from Windows by first writing the final print job out to a directory.  The directory specified has a certain structure and there may be many specified, depending on how many remote printers are available to the user.  In order to make these easy to recognize, there is a portion of the path that is the name of a queue. The following example is the full path for a network printer named " unixp" :

c:\ni\out\UNIXP\job

The " c:\ni" portion is used by default.  If during the installation a different (longer) directory was specified by the user, the path may be even longer.

The issue is that there are applications and printer drivers that cant handle writing to a filename beyond a certain length, and will give an error when printing. There are obvious ways to shorten this, i.e., choose a shorter printer name, but this may make the printer choices hard to tell apart. There are a couple of steps you can take that should allow you to specify a directory path that falls within the length required by your application, and still makes the printer names easy for users to choose from. Here are two suggestions:

First, check to make sure that when you performed the installation of NIPrint, you used the default directory name of " c:\ni" (or an alternative thats as short).

The next step is to make a change to your NIPrint configuration. From the main NIPrint window, select " Configuration" , then " Remote Printer Configuration". Highlight the printer from the list and select the " Edit Entry" button.  In the next screen select the " Advanced Print Settings"  button. There is a fill-in box labeled " Print Directory (without path):" ,where you can specify an alternate print directory name. This name can be as short as one character, yet will not effect the printer name as displayed to the user.