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8.4 Displaying Forms and Their Attributes

You can display the forms that already exist on your system with the following

command:

$ SHOW QUEUE/FORM

The form deﬁnitions display as follows:

Form name Number Description

--------- ------ -----------

A4_12 (stock=PLAIN_PAPER) 1129 A4 12-Pitch with margins

A4_LPT_GRAY (stock=PLAIN_PAPER) 1118 A4 DP line printer with gray bars

A4_LPT_PLAIN (stock=PLAIN_PAPER)

1119 A4 Plain DP line printer format

BOOT_CHART (stock=DEFAULT) 37 BOOT_CHART

BSS$LANDSCAPE (stock=DEFAULT) 3301 BSS Specific Landscape

BSS$PORTRAIT (stock=DEFAULT) 3302 BSS Specific Portrait

You can display the attributes of a form using the SHOW QUEUE/FORM/FULL

command. For example, this command displays the attributes of

DCPS$DEFAULT:

$ SHOW QUEUE/FORM/FULL DCPS$DEFAULT

Form name Number Description

--------- ------ -----------

DCPS$DEFAULT (stock=DEFAULT) 1115 DCPS default

/LENGTH=66 /STOCK=DEFAULT /TRUNCATE /WIDTH=80

8.5 Deleting a Form

Use the DELETE/FORM command to delete a form deﬁnition from the system’s

form table. The format of this command is as follows:

$ DELETE/FORM form-name

In the command line, you supply form-name, which is the name assigned to

the form you are using.

Before you use the DELETE/FORM command, execute the SHOW

QUEUE/FULL/ALL command. References to a form can exist as an attribute

of an active print queue or as a qualiﬁer to a print request. If you try to delete

a form that has outstanding references, you are notiﬁed of the condition, and

the form is not deleted. (Refer to Appendix A.)

8–4 Creating and Maintaining Form Deﬁnitions