Xref: utzoo comp.sys.novell:1229 comp.sources.wanted:16345 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!hamish From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Q -- Is there a Novell Split Screen Pconsole?READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP Message-ID: <1991Apr20.194159.3509@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 20 Apr 91 19:41:59 +1200 References: <1991Apr19.170557.24404@eng.umd.edu> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 27 In article <1991Apr19.170557.24404@eng.umd.edu>, rfink@eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink) writes: > I am a temporary acting manager for a Novell network, and would like to > ask the community if anyone has seen or knows of a program that will > display the queue contents of several printers on the same screen? THe > Pconsole , list queue contents screen is fine, but I have two printers > sitting side by side that I'd like to be able to view jobs queued to, and > have this information without having to fiddle with selecting queues, etc. > > If anyone can help out, or offer any advice, I'd be grateful. I'm trying > to set up a dedicated machine to sit next to the two printers and constantly > display the contents of the queues, to help calm down frustrated users. > I'm sure all people in my situation know what this situation is like! > THANKS! Windows 3 Print Manager will do just this. Simply connect the printer port to a particular queue(s) that you want to examine and away you go. Of course you have to be running windows 3 to do this, but at least it works. -- ============================================================================== | Hamish Marson | | Computer Support Person, Computer Science Department | | University of Waikato | |Disclaimer: Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the | | finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers | | opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree) | ==============================================================================