Technical data

14.2.5 Symbiont Termination When All Message Fields Disabled
If the job controller was started with all message fields disabled, the DCPS
symbiont would terminate with a %STR-F-STRTOOLON message whenever it
attempted to generate a -DCPS-I-JOB_ID message containing additional job
identification information. A message similar to the following would be sent to
OPCOM:
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 21-MAR-1996 20:28:01.70 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on DANTOO
Process SYMBIONT_15: %F-STRTOOLON, string is too long (greater
than 65535)
Symbiont terminations caused by disabled message fields were erroneously
believed to have been completely fixed in DCPS V1.1, as reported in
Section 17.2.5.
14.2.6 Online Help Fixed and Expanded
Some minor errors in the PRINT_PARAMETERS online help were fixed. In
addition, online help about the LN17ps and Colorwriter LSR 2000 printers was
added.
14.2.7 Gray Bars from the LIST Translator Are More Visible
Gray bars generated by the LIST translator to highlight alternate groups of lines
are now more visible for the DEClaser 5100 printer at resolutions above 300x300
dpi and for the Apple LaserWriter IIg printer.
14.2.8 Automatic Scaling When Queue Has PAGE_SIZE and SHEET_SIZE
Parameters
DCPS now assumes an implicit NUMBER_UP=1 when all of the following
conditions exist:
• The DCPS-PLUS license is installed.
• Queue default parameters for both PAGE_SIZE and SHEET_SIZE have been
set to different sizes.
• Your PRINT command does not specify these parameters:
– PAGE_SIZE
– SHEET_SIZE
– INPUT_TRAY
• NUMBER_UP and LAYUP_DEFINITION are not specified for the queue or in
your print command.
NUMBER_UP=1 scales the logical page size to fit on the physical sheet size. This
fix results in the same behavior as specifying different values for PAGE_SIZE
and SHEET_SIZE on the command line without specifying NUMBER_UP or
LAYUP_DEFINITION.
In previous versions of DCPS, the implicit scaling was assumed for command line
parameters but not for queue parameters. A workaround in those versions was to
include an explicit NUMBER_UP=1 with the queue parameters.
14–2 DCPS Version 1.3 Information