[33145] in Hotline Meeting
What to do when the printer is screwed...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Nye)
Tue Apr 23 18:17:05 1996
To: tkohata@MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU, jnye@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:17:00 EDT
From: Jack Nye <jnye@MIT.EDU>
Hey Takayuki--
Just a friendly reminder. If you print something to a printer,
then discover that the printer is broken, it is OK to print your
file to some other printer. But PLEASE remove your print request
from the printer that was broken. Otherwise, once the printer is
fixed, there will be a huge queue of stuff that nobody really wants.
It is a _particularly_ bad idea to hit print several more times,
just in case the printer didn't hear you the first time. This only
makes the queue longer.
To remove your file from a queue, type:
lprm -Pprinter -
(note the last dash)
Thanks,
Jack Nye.
