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From: LEICHTER@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU ("Jerry Leichter ", LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: $ Delete/Queue ; help needed
Message-ID: <8805240942.AA06609@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 22 May 88 02:23:00 GMT
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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>

Stopping the symbiont is really not the way to go....

	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.

Try doing a STOP/QUEUE/NEXT on the queue.

(Yes, it's all in the manuals, but no, this stuff is NOT obvious.)

							-- Jerry