warwick@marvin.dec.com.UUCP (06/15/87)
> I'm looking for a neat print symbiont and I'm sure somone must have written > one. What I'd like is a symbiont which will keep track of pages ( for > at least 95% of the time ) so that, if I load a box of paper correctly > at the start, each job will print with the flag page face up. This > would make sorting output much easier. > Something which works for LP11-style printers would be fine. > Thanks in advance, > John You can achieve the effect you want much more easily than by writing a symbiont. Investigate the BURST and FLAG options on the INIT/QUEUE command: $ INITIALIZE/QUEUE/DEFAULT=(BURST=ONE,FLAG=ONE). This will cause each job to be preceded by two header pages, with printing over the perforations between them so that it is easier to see the job boundaries in a stack of output. There is a fuller description in the System Manager's Reference Manual, in the section on Print queues. trevor warwick -------------- Digital Equipment Corporation, Reading, England. UUCP: ...decwrl!marvin.dec.com!warwick ARPA: warwick%marvin.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM