DEGROOT@HWALHW50.BITNET (Kees de Groot [DEGROOT@HWALHW50]) (08/12/87)
How to force a check-point while printing a large file
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We have the following problem:
Suppose a large print-request is printing. You want to hold
the job and resume it later on. If you do this the file is
restarted from the last checkpoint. You end up with two piles
of paper. The second pile contains some pages which are also
printed on the first pile of paper. So the user (or the
operator) has to remove one half of the double printed pages.
Now comes the question:
Is there a way to tell the symbiont or whatever to force a
checkpoint at a page boundary and hold the job. Later on the
job can then be restarted from that point. The only thing the
operator or the user has to do then is to remove the trailer
of the first pile and the leader of the second pile.
I know how to set a block-limit for a queue, so no comments on
that.
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