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From: JMS@MIS.ARIZONA.EDU ("That ain't no VAX; that's an 1840")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: $ DELETE/QUEUE
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Date: 21 May 88 22:34:00 GMT
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unmvax!charon!sdowdy@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU writes:

>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>

Don't do that.  Do this:
	1) $ stop/que/next <queue>
	2) $ delete/que    <queue>

You have to do a stop/que/next, not just a stop/que.  I don't
remember if this is a RTFM, but it's been that way as long as I
can remember (for reasons which I'm sure Jerry Leichter will 
explain in greater detail than I care to).

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