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- From: Gary Giles <geg@ornl.gov>
- Subject: Re: how to stop printer queue from stopping
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.173649.3779@ornl.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:36:49 GMT
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- Subject: how to stop printer queue from stopping
- From: Jack Craven, jgc@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:13:51 GMT
- In article <1993Jan22.121351.1@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov> Jack Craven,
- jgc@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov writes:
- >I have a printer connected to the Parallel port. From time to time the
- >printer is switched (black box switch)to another system and if a print
- >request comes up while the printer is switched to the other system the
- >print queue dies and has to be restarted after the printer is switched
- back.
- >
- >How does one setup the queue not to stop while the printer is down.
- >
- >Thanks - jgc@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov
- >
-
- We have had the same problem whenever the printer runs out of paper but
- only when
- there are more than one jobs in the queue to print. We would be
- interested in a fix also.
-
- Gary Giles
-