Re: Spool File Duplicating Again

maybe if the LPD is not needed on the 400 to recieve spoolfiles, end it.
ENDTCPSVR *LPD

this server is not needed to send print to a remote writer/outq.

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Bryan Dietz
Aktion Associates

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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 08/13/2006 06:24:37 PM:

-> >>We have been having a very strange problem that keeps getting worse.
We
-> >>have been having a spool file that gets created at night duplicate on
a
-> >>daily basis. The duplicate spool file gets created by user QSPLJOB. It

-> >>shows on the outq as one page with an asterisk next to it. Well things

-> >>have gotten stranger. A user ran this job this morning manually and
sent
->
-> >>it to the same printer. Guess what.....another duplicate got created
-> >>except this time the user that created it was QPRTJOB. Any help with
the
->
-> >>issue is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
->
-> >>Nick Franco
->
-> I recall this happening quite frequently in a past life (at
Create!form).
-> Since that has been a while, and I have had little
-> to do with spooled files and remote queues, my memory is fading.
->
-> However, the duplicate spooled file, with 1 page and an asterisk
indicates
-> an ASCII spooled file.  This is generated by
-> the LPD driver if the spooled file cannot be printed on the remote
-> printer.  This may be due to the printer being busy
-> (and not internally spooling) or the IP address giving you errors.  I
-> believe, in a nutshell, the LPD driver will accept
-> the spooled file, translated into ASCII through a Host Translation,
then,
-> since it (LPD) cannot pass the spooled file
-> to the destination, it will place it back on the queue it came from to
-> allow it to be attempted again later.
->
-> Check for messages on the queue, SYSOPR, on the writer itself and let us

-> know what you find.
->
-> Regards,
->
-> Rick