A friend has a computer running Win 98SE which wouldn't print using
spooling BUT will print directly to printer. What would cause the
spooling feature to go belly up? He is using an old dot matrix printer.

I believe I read that while using spooling one can multi-task but when
the printer is set to print directly to printer that one has to wait for
the printing to be completed before performing other tasks. Is this so?

Doug