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From: bsylvester@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Holding a job in a print queue by default
Message-ID: <5413.28579156@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 20:37:58 GMT
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We're wrestling with the student laser printer usage problem and one
suggestion has been to hold a print job in a queue until the student
asks for it, then a queue operator will release it to be printed. I'm
looking for cheap (public domain/shareware preferred) ways to implement this.

In PRINTCON there is an operator hold field.  Is there a way to get
this to default to YES?  I haven't found any way in the manuals, but
I'm no expert.

Another solution proposed was to have all the jobs spool to a queue
which is not serving any printers, then move the job to an active
queue.  I don't see any way to do that with Novell provided utilities.
On Compuserve, I found a utility called qm, but it's rather cumbersome.
Anybody know of anything that does this with a point-and-shoot / C-Worthy
interface?

Thanks very much,

Bill Sylvester
Miami University - Hamilton Campus
bsylvester@miavx0.ham.muohio.edu