IANCU%IIL@sc.intel.COM (Haifa Site Support - Igal Iancu) (04/16/88)
Hi, I have an question in which someone might help: We are running a computer center with 2x8800's and one 8650 on VMS 4.5. As you might expect, we are dealing with a many users. The problem arises when we want to distribute printouts to users. We used to add numbers to our print boxes in order to make the distribution easy for the computer room operators. In order to add the print_box number to the printout, we used the command: PRINT/NOTE=number The "number" was defined for every user in SYLOGIN.COM by a program which read an indexed file which assigned a number to every user and defined a local symbol for him. Everything works fine except for printouts from programs, specifically MAIL. Apparently, MAIL uses its own printing routines so we get a filename MAIL.LIS without the /NOTE command. Since MAIL printouts are a vast majority of the jobs, this is realy a pain in the neck. I have searched the Print Symbiont routines. All I have found are examples which will replace the Flag page. The PSM$ routines enable you to replace the DEC supplied routines but not to MODIFY them. Since I have no intention to rewrite the FLAG page routines (I do not know how to generate big letters, etc.) I am stuck. What I could do is define a burst page of my own. This is a partial solution since with the High-quality (Daisy-wheel) and laser printers, we do not use burst pages, so as to save paper and time. I even tried to change the PSM$ANNOUNCE symbol (on top of the page) but apparently the Symbiont looks for the symbol in the SYSTEM table and thus a non-privileged user cannot define this symbol as local. Thanks in advance, Igal Iancu Intel Corporation ARPA: iancu%iil@intel.sc.com BITNET: iancu%iil%intel.sc.com@relay.cs.net -----------------------