User's Guide for MS-DOS Clients
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Command and Utility Summary
Printsta
Purpose
The printsta command accepts print jobs from other workstations and prints
them on a shared printer.
Syntax
printsta options
printsta /D
where
/N:name
Allows you to grant one remote workstation exclusive access to the
LAN Manager Print Station printer. If you use this switch, the only remote user
who can send print jobs to your printer is the one at the computer with
computername name. (Of course, you will still be able to send print jobs to your
own printer, too.)
/L:n
Tells LAN Manager Print Station which printer port to use. For example, /L:1
would instruct LAN Manger Print Station to use the printer connected to LPT1.
The range is 1 to 3; the default is 1.
/V:n
Redirects printer output from the workstation that is sharing a printer from the
port that has the shared printer to the specified logical port, which may be in turn
redirected to a queue on a server. You may specify 1 for LPT1, 2 for LPT2, or 3
for LPT3.
/Q
Acts as a toggle to pause and release the queue.
/M:n
Specifies the amount of cache memory reserved for each permitted spool file.
When LAN Manager Print Station is loaded, it allocates a memory block (a
buffer) for caching the spool file data for each spool file that it may receive over
the network. You set the number of spool files that may be created at one time
with the /F option. For example, if you set /F:10 and /M:200, when