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From: dbielik@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Danny Bielik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Print Queue Job Splits
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Date: 15 May 91 23:06:32 GMT
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In article <1991May15.170341.28938@qut.edu.au> owenc@qut.edu.au (Chris Owen) writes:
>From: dbielik@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Danny Bielik)
>>When large, graphics intensive jobs, such as DTP documents are sent into the
>>queue, the server may split them up into smaller jobs.  THis does not pose
>>a problem, as the printer puts them together and prints OK.  The problem is
>>when another user places a job in the queue while a DTP document is being
>>queued, so that the other user's job gets stuck in the middle.
>
>If you're using capture with timeouts, it's possible that the shell is timing
>out while the workstation thinks about the next part of the graphic.  Increasing
>the timeout here should fix this (we use TI=10 sec, but its PC and application 
>dependent).  Alternately you could setup capture with no timeout, the job 
>finishing when the application is exited, or via ENDCAP.
>
Thanks, Chris.  I may just try this.  We have been using TI=1, but 10 sounds
fine.  The other thing I might try, when I get time, is to set up two queues,
one with higher priority, and feed the DTP docs in there, so nothing will
interrupt them on the way to the printer, i.e. jobs from the lower priority
Q.  The only problem is I don't know how!  :-)

I have seen the SERVERS, which I can set up, but are they servers for the Q,
or Queues themselves?  Confusing, isn't it?


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