info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (11/28/84)
From: *Hobbit* <AWalker@RUTGERS.ARPA> Jon S. was just one step away from our old solution to this one. On our 780, we had the same problem with the printers. While grumbling about how VMS doesn't have the equivalent of a tops-20 STI, we discovered that if you stop the queue via appropriate invocations of stop/next, stop/abort and delete/entry, you can then do set device/nospool ttqn: where that's the DZ line. Apparently this issues a setmode QIO to reset everything to a known state. Then you set it /spool=(que,dev:) and restart the queue. Only the current job is lost. While on the subject, has anyone come up with a reasonably painless way to ''simulate'' STI, or even TLINK under VMS? Or must one sit around in kernel mode and police TTDRIVER for incoming/outgoing characters? _H* -------