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Re: Forcing print jobs from the spool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Shepard)
Mon Nov 2 14:33:06 1998
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 23:30:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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In-Reply-To: <13885.64633.762403.877856@picard.ray.clark.net>
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Ray Curtis wrote:
> rs> I would like to know: 1) how to flush jobs from the lp0 spool to the
> rs> printer and 2) how to set up the workstation (and/or WordPerfect 7) so that
> rs> the jobs print as soon as the printer is available.
> Do a lpq to derive the job #, then use lprm job#.
My reading of the man page for lprm is that this command removes the job
from the queue in the spool. Deleting a job does not get it printed, as far
as I know.
Rich
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