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Setting Up and Maintaining Queues
14.6 Using Queue Options
Table 14–3 (Cont.) DEFINE/FORM Qualifiers
Qualifier Purpose
/[NO]PAGE_
SETUP=(module[,...])
Specifies one or more device control modules that set up a
device at the start of each page.
/SETUP=(module[,...]) Specifies one or more device control modules that set up the
device at the start of each file.
/[NO]SHEET_FEED Specifies that print jobs pause at the end of every physical
page so that a new sheet of paper can be inserted.
/STOCK=string Specifies the type of paper stock to be associated with the form.
/DESCRIPTION=string Specifies a string used to provide information about the form.
If you create forms only to provide different formatting options (and not to specify
paper stock), specify the same stock type for each form. That way, jobs requesting
any of these forms will print on the same queue without requiring you to enter
any additional commands to modify the queue.
Unless you specify the /STOCK qualifier, the form’s stock name is the same as the
name of the form.
Note
If you want to define a form name that is also an existing logical name,
read the description of logical names in the OpenVMS User’s Manual.
Example
The command in the following example defines the form MEMO as the number 3
and defines formatting options for the form:
$ DEFINE/FORM MEMO 3/STOCK=DEFAULT -
_$ /MARGIN=(TOP=2,BOTTOM=2,LEFT=6)/WIDTH=80/LENGTH=66/TRUNCATE -
_$ /DESCRIPTION="LN03 indented memo format"
14.6.7.5 Assigning a Default Form for a Queue
If a user does not specify the /FORM qualifier when submitting a job with the
PRINT command, the job uses the default form for the execution queue on which
the job is printed.
To assign a default form for an output execution queue, use the /DEFAULT
qualifier with INITIALIZE/QUEUE, START/QUEUE, or SET QUEUE.
Note
The queue’s default form is associated with a print job at the time the
job is processed unless the user specifies a specific form when the job is
submitted. Therefore, if a user submits a job to a generic queue without
specifying the /FORM qualifier, no form is associated with the job until it
is transferred to an execution queue.
If you do not establish a default form for a queue, the queue uses the systemwide
default form, DEFAULT.
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