Generated from C.60.01 /SYS/PUB/CICAT last modified on Thu Jan 11 09:18:52 2001
DELETES A SPOOLFILE FROM DISK.
{#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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