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- From: tmunro@ccs.carleton.ca (Tim Munro)
- Subject: Re: Capturing to best queue w/system login
- Message-ID: <tmunro.13.728071834@ccs.carleton.ca>
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- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <C1H0tH.17J@world.std.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:10:34 GMT
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- In article <C1H0tH.17J@world.std.com> levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder) writes:
- >From: levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder)
- >Subject: Capturing to best queue w/system login
- >Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:05:40 GMT
- >I'd like to set up our workstations so that default capturing
- >is to the most nearby printer, irrespective of login name. (In
- >other words, no matter where Joe logs in, his printing will
- >be captured to the queue associated with the physically nearest
- >printer, unless subsequently overridden.)
- >
- >(Talking about 2.15 w/Dos 3.30; soon to be 3.11/5.00)
- >
- >1. Is there a way with DOS variables and Novell Login Scripts?
- >I tried #Capture q=%LANPNAME% in a user login script; just got
- >"Queue %LANPNAME% does not exist..." (w/dos var LANPNAME set to
- >a queue name).
- >
- >2. Would the following work; do you forsee any problems; can
- >it work in a system login script?
- > Set dos var to nearby printer name in autoexec.
- > write a utility to get the variable name and
- > spawn a capture command set to the right queue
- > #call that utility from the login script
- > DOS SET that variable to make it go away.
- >Has anyone got such a utility written?
- >
- >Does doing a DOS SET VARNAME= to blank out the name leave any kind
- >of "hole" if subsequent variable names have been assigned?
- >
- >Any alternative suggestions, tangential tips, etc. welcome. Here
- >or mail, your discrection.
- >
- My suggestion is do the actual CAPTURE in a batch file following the
- login script. ie EXIT "lanexec.bat". In 'lanexec.bat' you could have your
- capture command as well any other final setup you wish to do.
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- Tim Munro
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