Lars_Palmer_H{ssle%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (08/25/85)
I sent a question about printers in vms to this forum some time ago an have received several good hints but no real solution as I also have received several signs of misunderstanding let me try to reformulate the question but first let me just state this i have used VMS since 1979 (baselevel 5)I hve in use 4 vaxes in a cluster and another 4 on decnet so please I am no vax novice, this question in not trivial the questions are 1)I want to set up the system so that the user NEVER sees a phsical device name I want submit to produced "entered on LP_xxx I also want to be able to send to the device and to the que under the same name (typified by submit/que=abc and copy file abc I think thta is how trhe spooler system should work !! in fact I only think thath the physical device namen should appear at the /on= in the que setup (there is one real cathc here it is NOT possible to have a que name and a logicial name the same an acp close file error is produced) I think we have tried all possible combinations but would gladly listen to someone thath has found the right combination. ----- the second question i want each printer to be assosiated with a paper size (VMS 3 set terminla /page=) I want all printouts that are not steted with another form to print with that page size wether passed by print/que or by copy to the device (dont sya it is impossible VMS 3 did just that) ---- so lets here all you printer gurus