Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!chris
From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Hacks to my spooler (``spool'') available
Message-ID: <7275@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-May-84 20:44:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.7275
Posted: Sat May 26 20:44:01 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jun-84 02:24:44 EDT
Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
Lines: 25

I was surprised to discover that a number of people have found my
printer spooler (posted a month or two ago to net.sources, along
with Versatec plot library code) to be useful.  Anyway, this is to
announce that some modifications are available, as follows:

	- New keyword in /etc/spool_devices, ``setup'', allows an
	  initialization program to be run on the device.  I added
	  this after we got a serial line printer in, and I needed
	  to initialize the baud rate.  A line of the form

		setup "stty new 9600 -nl decctlq mdmbuf"

	  did the trick in this case (along with a Printronix
	  underline code conversion program for text files, executed
	  as the default despool program).

	- ``spoolq'', to examine spooler queues (and restart
	  despooler daemon in case it has mysteriously died)

(No ``spoolrm'' program yet, but I installed some stuff to get
a bit closer to having one.)
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci (301) 454-7690
UUCP:	{seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!chris
CSNet:	chris@umcp-cs		ARPA:	chris@maryland