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Subj:	REMPRTSMB following in 3 parts

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From: "GWDGV1::MOELLER" <moeller%gwdgv1.dnet.gwdg.de@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
To: info-vax@sri.com, vmsnet-sources@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Subject: REMPRTSMB following in 3 parts

Due to popular demand, I'll post REMPRTSMB (a symbiont that redirects
its output to a `file' - possibly via DECnet) in 3 parts.

To use:

(a) create REMPRTSMB.EXE
	$ cc remprtsmb
	$ macro itrmlen
	$ link/notrace remprtsmb,itrmlen,sys$input/opt
	SYS$SHARE:VAXCRTL/share

(b) copy it to SYS$SYSTEM

(c)	$ init/queue  ...  /proc=REMPRTSMB	-
		/SEPARATE=(FLAG,TRAILER)	-
		/on=<logname>

where the /SEPARATE specification is absolutely necessary - the symbiont
uses the "separation" stuff to detect start and end of print jobs, it will
not output any separation pages (but will do /FLAG pages as you like).

(d)	define the `<logname>' above like
	$ define/system	<logname> "node::dev:[dir]/opt"

to point to the place where the symbiont's output should go, together
with various options that determine the output file names.
Actually a GROUP 001 logical name will do.

Without an option, all output files will be named VAX.PRT .

Possible options ('/opt') are:
	/USERNAME  ...	use VMS username (instead of "VAX") for file name.
	/JOBNAME   ...	if JOB_NAME has legal "fff.vvv" format, use it for
			output filespec (neither "fff" nor "vvv" may be void);
			if it is just "fff", output filespec => "fff.PRT".
	/RSX 	   ...	require RSX-compatible JOB_NAME, or otherwise
			force output filespec into RSX-compatible format.
	/SPOOL	  ...	creates output file with "print/delete" option.

I just *hope* that /SPOOL works; the VMS site which we feed via this symbiont
liked it better to have the output go directly to their "LP:" (you might
think of other `dev:'ices, the symbiont is using plain RMS).

(e) start the queue ...


BTW, REMPRTSMB is multi-threaded, and therefore was an exercise in
*asynchronous* RMS operations (part of which is new with VMS V5).

Better don't use it on VMS V4, because there was a bug in the
symbiont /restart logic which would make REMPRTSMB lose re-started print jobs.
If you don't mind, you can get it to work under V4 (I did) by removing
the line which says
		#define ASY_FAB

Enjoy,

Wolfgang J. Moeller, GWDG, D-3400 Goettingen, F.R.Germany | Disclaimer ...
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