Upgraded to .74 but no change. File which should stay open until dos program quits still disapears within seconds. Any devs have an idea whats going on?

Thats the way pagescript works. It reads the temp file until the clipper app quits. The clipper app actually creates the file. Clipper is an _old_ dos compiler, and therefore it works the way it's supposed to. Only, under linux, the spool file disappears immediately after it's created. Why would …

In dos (win xp) it stays open until the app closes, so it's a dos box problem. I checked this!

I have a dos app written in clipper 5.2 that uses a windows print spooler (pagescript for clipper 4.2) that prints to a spool file that is then captured by the windows print spool program for print to a windows printer. Everything runs great, a temp spool file is created, but within a few seconds …