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From: jbs@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: net.decus
Subject: Re: queueing jobs to a lineprinter from macro-11
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 17:48:21 EST
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In article <105@andromeda.UUCP> marco@andromeda.UUCP (the wharf rat) writes:
>
>	I have a situation where I have to queue a file for printing
>at a lineprinter set up as a terminal queue from a macro-11 program.
>I know how to print a buffer at a lineprinter, but can't figure
>out how to queue a file for printing.  What I want to do is
>execute "print/que=tte0:/nofeed" from the program, without
>any kludges like $creprc.  We are running VMS 4.2 on an 11/780.
>Anyone out here in netland got an idea?
>  

Use SET DEVICE/SPOOL.  Then you can queue something to the printer by
just opening the terminal device and writing the data out to it.

Jeff Siegal - MIT EECS