[49473] in Hotline Meeting
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Fri Dec 10 19:21:31 1999
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 19:21:27 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199912110021.TAA17860@zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu>
From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
I have taken the liberty of attaching a small sign to each of the
printers in the W20 cluster which says:
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IF YOUR JOB HAS NOT PRINTED...
Before printing it again, please type:
% lpq -l
or:
% lpq -l -Pprintername
to see if it's still in the queue. If it's still queued, it will be
printed eventually. Printing jobs (especially large ones) multiple
times won't make them print faster, and will tie up the printer
longer.
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on the theory that this will help cut down on the `OH MY GOD MY JOB
HASN'T PRINTED THE PRINTER MUST HAVE LOST IT I HAVE TO PRINT IT AGAIN
[AND AGAIN [AND AGAIN]]' wastage.
I'd suggest that some variant of this be used in all of the clusters.
If hotline objections, they're easy enough to remove. B-)
