SPOOLER

 

appearing as though the STOP parameter has not a￿ected

 

printing. This happens because the spooler stops sending

 

data to the device when the command is receiv ed, but must

 

wait until all bu￿ered data has been prin ted before stopping.

 

Depending on both the con tent of the data and the amoun t of

 

bu￿ering, this ma y require a signi￿can t part of a page or ev en

 

several pages.

 

 

If you stop the spooler while it is prin ting a ￿le, the spooler

 

saves the page number of the last complete page that w as

 

printed. Whenever any spooler subsequen tly selects the ￿le

 

for printing, output resumes at the page n umber following the

 

saved page number.

 

FINISH

Directs the spooler to ￿nish prin ting the currently active spool

 

￿le and then stop.

 

NOW

Directs the spooler to immediately stop prin ting the currently

 

active spool ￿le. This is the default for the STOP option.

OPENQ

For information about this parameter, refer to

OPENQ for the

 

Enable/Disable option.

 

SHUTQ

For information about this parameter, refer to

SHUTQ for the

 

Enable/Disable option.

 

SHOW

For information about this parameter, refer to

SHOW for the

 

Status option.

 

Suspend option:

 

 

SUSPEND

Suspends output to one or more spooled devices so that

 

the spooler devices become inactive. When y ou specify this

 

parameter, the follo wing message appears:

 

 

Output spooler, LDEV #ldev: Suspended.

 

If you do not specify either the FINISH or NOW parameters, NOW

 

is the default. If y ou do not specify either the

KEEP or NOKEEP

 

parameter, KEEP is the default.

 

Because large amoun ts of data are bu￿ered in the ￿le system and the device, an output device ma y continue to print, appearing as though the SUSPEND parameter has not a￿ected

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