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From: sdowdy@charon.unm.edu (Stephen Dowdy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: $ Delete/Queue ; help needed
Summary: How to w/o killing symbiont
Keywords: Print queue symbiont spooled device
Message-ID: <3107@charon.unm.edu>
Date: 16 May 88 04:27:01 GMT
Reply-To: sdowdy@charon.unm.edu (Stephen Dowdy)
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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Does anyone know of a way to *really* delete a print queue on a spooled
device?

Up to this point the only way i can get the queue deleted is by:
	1) $ stop <queue>
	2) pid = f$getdvi(<queue_device>,"PID")	! get symbiont PID
	3) Stop/Id='pid'			! Kill the symbiont
	4) Delete/Queue <queue>

If i don't kill the symbiont, VMS will say "queue must be stopped", which
i have already done in step 1.  I don't want to kill the symbiont, since
that's not very nice to do to a multi-threaded process driving multiple
print queues.

I don't know offhand if this is only for spooled print queues, or not, but
i need to delete the queue to modify parameters on the spooled device via
SET TERM, or just to move the print queue to another device (having a
DZ blowup recently, and moving the line...)

I'd really appreciate a "nice" way to do this, since i make changes to
queues fairly regularly (or have been forced to).

Thanks,
--stephen dowdy
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