Printers that go nowhere

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Ed Clark

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Jun 21, 2008, 1:05:01 PM6/21/08
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Thought I'd share this with the group:
At install, or after using the SP-NEWTAB command, cache always creates a
queue named STANDARD as queue# 0. Since STANDARD is the default queue when
you enter the mv shell, you may end up with a lot of unwanted output, or if
you don't start a despool process on it, a lot of unwanted jobs filling up
the spooler.
You can create a despooler process for a queue to send the output nowhere:
On windows:
SP-DEVICE STANDARD CACHE NUL
Or on linux:
SP-DEVICE STANDARD CACHE /dev/null

You could also create a new queue to go nowhere:
SP-CREATE VOID CACHE NUL

Greg Baryza

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Jun 23, 2008, 9:02:20 AM6/23/08
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I have added this as an example in the spooler book.
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