I asked Digital the following question :-
"If one has a disabled Unix queue with a number of jobs waiting for the queue
to be enabled so that they can print, is it possible to enable the queue such
that only one job is printed before the queue is disabled again? (In effect
an equivalent to STOP/QUE/NEXT on VMS.)
It is required to use a queue with different stationery, but the times at
which jobs are to be submitted to the queue are unknown."
Digital replied that this degree of queue control was not possible and the only
solution if there is a number of jobs in a queue is to remove all jobs other
than the one which is about to print or rename the cfxxx and dfxxx files
in /var/spool until the printer is ready.
Does anyone know of alternative methods of job control to make such a situation
more manageable?
Thanks
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Received on Tue Feb 20 1996 - 17:20:02 NZDT