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If it is necessary to pause the queue without waiting for the current job to
complete, use the STOP/QUEUE/RESET command. For example:
$ STOP/QUEUE/RESET PS$A4
This command pauses the queue PS$A4 and printing stops immediately.
Note
When communications problems arise with a serial or raw
TCP/IP interconnect, the symbiont will keep listening for up to 4
minutes before disconnecting from the printer. Therefore, under
some conditions, the device is not released immediately after a
STOP/QUEUE/RESET command is issued.
See Appendix A for more STOP/QUEUE qualifiers.
5.8 Starting a Queue
Use the START/QUEUE command to restart a print queue that has been
paused with the STOP/QUEUE command. If you make changes to a
print queue in DCPS$STARTUP.COM, restart the queue by executing the
DCPS$STARTUP.COM file, as described in Section 3.6.
For example, to restart print queue PS40$A15, use the following command:
$ START/QUEUE PS40$A15
If you interrupt a printing job when you stop the queue, the print job restarts
when you restart the queue.
The logical name, DCPS$queuename_PID, is defined by the symbiont when
it starts executing. This allows the system manager to determine which
symbiont is assigned to a given queue, and is especially useful when using
multi-streamed symbionts. See Section 3.4.1.
Note
When a DCPS queue is started, the symbiont does not immediately
attempt to make a connection to the printer, to minimize the possibility
that the queue will not start. This is particularly important while
starting queues at system boot time, to avoid introducing delays or
errors into the boot process. It is not until DCPS starts processing a
5–6 Manipulating Print Jobs and Print Queues