SPOOLF

Parameters

 

 

 

Alter Option:

 

 

 

IDNAME

Speci￿es one or more spool ￿le IDs, spoolid , in the form of

 

#Onnn . The spooling subsystem assigns the IDs when the

 

spool ￿les are created. The # and the O are optional and are

 

assumed if you do not supply them. As a shortcut, y ou can use

 

O@ to specify all output spool ￿les.

 

 

If you have system manager (SM) or system supervisor (OP)

 

capability, O@ a￿ects all output spool ￿les on the system. If

 

you have account manager (AM) capability , O@ a￿ects all

 

output spool ￿les created b y users in the same accoun t. If you

 

do not have any of these capabilities, y ou are limited to alter

 

only ￿les that y ou have created.

 

ALTER

Alters the characteristics of speci￿ed spool ￿les. The

DEFER,

 

DEV, and SPSAVE parameters a￿ect the ALTER option as follows:

 

 

If you use DEFER or DEV for a spool ￿le curren tly printing,

 

 

 

 

 

 

the spooler process in terrupts the prin ting. The spooler

 

 

process saves the page number of the last complete page that

 

 

was printed. The next time an y spooler selects the ￿le for

 

 

printing, output resumes at the sa ved page number.

 

 

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 DEFER and DEV have not a￿ected

 

 

printing. This is 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 releasing the

 

 

spool ￿le. Depending on both the con tent of the data and

 

 

the amount of bu￿ering, this ma y require a signi￿can t part of

 

 

a page or even several pages.

 

 

 

You cannot alter the attributes of spool ￿les in the

SPSAVE

 

 

 

 

 

 

state.

 

DEV

Speci￿es the device, whic h may have one of the following

 

values:

 

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