Are you using QPC?
I seem to recall that the buffering on some QL systems makes it look
like printing's finished, but in fact it's still being output in the
background.
On some QL systems there are xxx_ABORT commands to abort printing.
PAR_ABORT or PAR_CLEAR on QPC2 aborts parallel port printing
(difference beign that one of them sends the text "Aborted" to the
printer.)
There is a SER_ABORT command too for serial ports, but I guess nobody
uses serial printers any more on the emulators.
Older QL systems also have a PRT_ABT command to throw away buffered
output sent via the PRT device on Gold Card,etc but I think this is
either not implemented or ignored on QPC.
So, it probably depends WHERE on your PC the buffering is happening,
which could be:
1. in the QDOS/SMSQ-E parts
2. in the Windows print buffering system
3. buffered in the printer's own memory if it has a buffer of any
significant size.
Dilwyn Jones
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From: "QL-Mylink" <[email protected]>
To: "QL -Users" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 9:42 PM
Subject: [Ql-Users] Fooling 'Spooling' from QPC-2
Evening all.
Perhaps my posting of 28 06 2010 (copy below) became randomly
corrupted or
something. I am grateful for advice offered, I’m more than a bit
puzzled by
the responses, as the appear on my screen.
Have a look at this:
I wrote -
“However, even as it merrily wasted ink, the O/S reported that there
was no
current print job - and thus the 'job' could not be removed from the
spool
queue in the usual way.”
I should have been explicit that the list was unpopulated?
Puzzlingly, Malcolm's retort was -
“….It is usually a case of killing the print job in the printer
queue….”
and Derek’s, in a similar vein -
“……, you can delete jobs from the printer queue on the machine that is
the
print server.”
Further confirmed by Malcolm in -
“Derek is right, for a home PC network the printer queue will be on
the
computer that you set up as the master machine, with the printer(s)
attached to it.”
I exercised Malcolm's “administrative privileges, to be able to kill
off
those corrupted print jobs or the malicious ones” on the "master
machine".
That, of course, is how I tried to … “[remove] from the spool queue in
the
usual way.”
But with an unpopulated queue ......?
Anyone anything to add please?.
Cheers,
John in Wales
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Hello everyone,
Had a real teaser last evening. I was networking (LAN) a document to
be
printed on a 'remote' (not QPC approved) printer attached to a peer
in the
network. In other words it was all in (this) house!
When the printer had initiated, it attempted to print stuff from its
local
machine, stuff which originated from that W/Xp's machine's copy of
QPC-2!
It had been (accidentally) spooled to the HD from ARCHIVE , some days
ago,
after the printer was last on-line.
Incidentally, some was plain text, some was gobbledegook and many were
new-page codes! The only way to stop it, I found ,was to force an
error by
denying paper to the muncher. Then I would reboot the local (to the
printer) machine and the printer. It was still there. :(
O.K. I (think) I understand all that behaviour. However, even as it
merrily
wasted ink, the O/S reported that there was no current print job -
and thus
the 'job' could not be removed from the spool queue in the usual way.
Again, I (think) I understand.
There now follows an appeal for help on behalf of the "Save my Sanity,
Ink
and Paper" party.
Is there a 'magic' way of removing, what has, in effect, become a
'rouge'
job, from QPC-2, on the O/S spooler, please, anyone?
Be good all. Its not raining here.
John in Wales.
PS: QPC-2 in innocent!
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