Technical data

• Form Number: You specify a number for the form you are deﬁning.

• /DESCRIPTION: You can optionally add a description to the form to help

users understand what the different forms do.

• /STOCK: You supply the name of the media that needs to be in the printer

when this form is invoked. The media you specify must match the media

in the printer. If they do not match, the job is held in the queue until users

load the speciﬁed media or modify the form deﬁnition. Use the DEFAULT

parameter to use whatever media is in the printer.

• /SETUP: You must supply the name of the setup module(s) you want

associated with the form.

Note

The existence of the setup module(s) is not checked until the form is

used.

8.2 Associating a Form with a Print Queue

If users invoke a setup module frequently, you can associate the setup module

with a form, then associate the form with a queue. This method ensures that

print jobs submitted to the queue automatically use the setup module. Use the

following procedure to associate a form with a queue:

1. Associate the setup module with the form, as described in Section 8.1.

2. Associate the form with the execution queue, by editing parameter 5 (p5)

in DCPS$STARTUP.COM as follows:

• With the /FORM_MOUNTED qualiﬁer, specify the name of the form

you want tied to the queue.

• Specify the /DEFAULT=FORM=form-name qualiﬁer to ensure that

every job prints with the form, even if the user does specify a form.

The following example associates the form called CONFIDENTIAL with an

execution queue called XLR8:

$ @SYS$STARTUP:EXECUTION_QUEUE.COM -

XLR8- !P1 - Execution queue name

"DECNET/XLR8" - !P2 - Device name

DCPS_LIB - !P3 - Logical name for /LIBRARY

"" - !P4 - Not used

"/FORM_MOUNTED=CONFIDENTIAL/DEFAULT=(FORM=CONFIDENTIAL,NOFEED)"

!P5 - Queue default qualifiers

8–2 Creating and Maintaining Form Deﬁnitions