---
title: "Spooler"
id: 72983
type: "computer_media"
slug: "spooler"
url: "http://localhost/computer_media/spooler/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/computer_media/spooler.md"
published_at: "2026-10-27T21:30:10+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-10-27T21:30:10+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "A print spooler job that copies a named file to the serial port in the background, compiled from a short SuperBASIC program with Supercharge."
post_tag:
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    slug: "downloadable"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/downloadable/"
  - name: "QL"
    slug: "ql"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ql/"
model:
  - name: "Sinclair QL"
    slug: "sinclair-ql"
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    url: "http://localhost/model/sinclair-ql/"
genre:
  - name: "Printer"
    slug: "printer"
    taxonomy: "genre"
    url: "http://localhost/type/printer/"
media_type: "Diskette"
download_url: "https://archive.org/download/timex-sinclair-software-archive/Spooler%20%28198x%29%28-%29%28Sinclair%20QL%29%28UK%29%28Program%29.zip"
mediadate: "198x"
media_type_tags: "Printer"
license: false
---

# Spooler

Spooler runs as a separate QDOS job. It opens a small window, asks for the name of a file and copies it to the serial port, then asks for the next, so you can print while you go on working.

No author is named. `spl_bas` is the SuperBASIC source; its last line says it was compiled with Supercharge to make `spooler`.

### Potential Issues

- Both need the `SSJOB` extension, which is not on these disks; in QLRun `spooler` stops with “SSJOB is not loaded”.

It came from a QL owner’s floppy copies of QUANTA and IQLUG library material, imaged double-stepped so that only half of each disk survived; this file read back complete. The download holds the files exactly as recovered and a QL5A floppy image, *Spooler.img*, with the same files and their QDOS headers. Mount the image as FLP1_ (drop it on the QLRun page, or use it as a floppy image in sQLux, QPC2 or Q-emuLator) and type `exec flp1_spooler`.

Not tested beyond the missing-extension message.

## Source Code

```
10 SSJOB -1,-1
20 OPEN#3,con_448x30a32x226_32
25 BORDER#3,5,2
30 CLS#3:INPUT#3,'File to spool to SER'!file$
40 COPY (file$) TO ser
45 CLOSE#3
50 GO TO 10
100 REMark this file was SUPERCHARGED to form spooler
```