[brlug-general] sharing a printer among multiple users sending contiguous jobs

[Fernando Vilas]

El Friday 20 April 2007 06:21:00 Edmund Cramp escribió:
> John,
>
> Most printers work on a FIFO so jobs get printed as they arrive - hence
> your problem.
>
> The only way that I can see you solving your problem would be for the users
> to print to file, concatenate the files (might need a little magic) and
> then submit the concatenated files as one job when the user has completed
> their processes.  I've seen this done years ago in the VMS world via a
> batch file written in the VMS command language.
>
> Edmund Cramp

John,

	Edmund is right on this one, I've always seen jobs print as they arrive, not 
bundled per user.  However, a command like "lpr file1 file2 file3" should 
create one job to print all 3 files.

-- 
Thanks,
Fernando Vilas
fvilas at iname.com
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