Generated from C.65.00 /SYSADMIN/PUB/MYCICAT last modified on Sun Aug 29 15:08:37 2004
Deletes a spoolfile from disk. (CM)
{#ONNN} DELETESPOOLFILE {#INNN} {LDEV }
#ONNN THE IDENTIFICATION OF A READY OR ACTIVE OUTPUT SPOOLFILE. #INNN THE IDENTIFICATION OF A READY, INPUT SPOOLED DATA FILE. LDEV THE LOGICAL DEVICE NUMBER ON WHICH THE SPOOLFILE IS ACTIVE.
BEFORE DELETING AN ACTIVE SPOOLFILE, YOU SHOULD FIRST TAKE THE OUTPUT DEVICE OFFLINE. THIS ALLOWS YOU TIME TO ENTER THE COMMAND AND DETERMINE THAT THE ACTIVE SPOOLFILE CORRESPONDS TO THE CORRECT OUTPUT DEVICE. WHEN MPE/iX RETURNS THE COLON PROMPT (), YOU KNOW THAT THE DELETESPOOLFILE INSTRUCTION HAS BEEN SENT TO THE SPOOLER PROCESS. IT WILL NOT BE EXECUTED, HOWEVER, UNTIL THE OUTPUT DEVICE IS PUT BACK ONLINE. YOU MAY NOT USE THE DELETESPOOLFILE COMMAND ON THE FOLLOWING FILES: o SYSTEM-DEFINED STANDARD INPUT SPOOLFILES ($STDIN). DELETE THEM WITH THE ABORTJOB COMMAND. o ACTIVE SPOOLFILES WITH DATA INPUT, ENTERED VIA THE STREAM COMMAND. YOU MAY DELETE THESE ONLY WHEN THEY ARE READY. YOU MAY ALSO NOT DELETE THESE FILES WHEN THEY ARE OPEN. DELETESPOOLFILE WILL DELETE ACTIVE DATA INPUT FILES WHICH ARE SUBMITTED ON A SPOOLED DEVICE. IT CANNOT DELETE SUCH FILES WHILE THEY ARE BEING STREAMED. THIS COMMAND MAY BE ISSUED FROM A SESSION, PROGRAM, OR IN BREAK. IT MAY NOT BE ISSUED FROM A JOB. PRESSING [BREAK] HAS NO EFFECT ON THIS COMMAND. THIS COMMAND MAY BE USED ONLY FROM THE CONSOLE UNLESS IT IS DISTRIBUTED TO USERS WITH THE ALLOW OR ASSOCIATE COMMANDS.
TO DELETE THE ACTIVE SPOOLFILE BEING PRINTED ON LDEV 6, FIRST TAKE THE PRINTER OFFLINE. THIS GENERATES A NOT READY MESSAGE AT THE CONSOLE, AFTER WHICH YOU MAY ENTER THE DELETESPOOLFILE COMMAND, AS SHOWN BELOW 1121/7/LDEV#6 NOT READY DELETESPOOLFILE 6 WHEN YOU PUT THE DEVICE BACK ONLINE, THE TRAILER PAGE WILL BE PRINTED, AND THE FILE DELETED. IF YOU HAVE SUPPRESSED HEADER/TRAILER OUTPUT WITH THE HEADOFF COMMAND, NO TRAILER IS PRINTED BEFORE THE SPOOLFILE IS DELETED. HOWEVER, THE PRINTER WILL SKIP TO THE TOP OF THE NEXT PHYSICAL PAGE. IF THE DEVICE IS A PAGE PRINTER, THE DEFAULT ENVIRONMENT IS RELOADED.
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