Spooler Plus Utilities Reference Manual

Spoolcom
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DEV Command
START
causes an offline device to become online. All users can restart devices that
have gone offline due to a device error (for example, running out of paper).
This subcommand causes a suspended device to resume printing.
Devices taken offline can be restarted only by an authorized user.
STARTFF [ ON | OFF [ ! ] ]
specifies whether the spooler print process FASTP issues a form feed at the
beginning of each job.
If STARTFF or STARTFF ON is specified, FASTP issues a form feed at the
beginning of each job. This form feed is suppressed if the paper is at top-of-
form or if the job started with a form feed, thereby preventing extra blank
pages.
STARTFF OFF (the default value) specifies that FASTP is not to issue a form
feed at the beginning of each job. In this case, FASTP issues a form feed at
the start of a job if HEADER ON or HEADER BATCH is configured. For jobs
that do not contain a starting form feed, this default action can result in jobs
printed without an inserted blank page between jobs. Inserting blank pages
can be altered by the ENDFF, DEVRESET, or EXCLUSIVE subcommands. If
STARTFF is not specified, it defaults to OFF.
STARTFF OFF ! specifies that FASTP ignore the first form feed in the print job
based on the assumption that there are no paper motion commands before the
form feed.
Note that combinations of conditional form feeds as a result of STARTFF ON,
ENDFF ON, DEVRESET ON, and EXCLUSIVE OFF [!] will not result in
multiple form feeds by the device.
STATUS [ / OUT filename / ] [ DETAIL ]
displays the attributes of devices in the spooler subsystem. See DEV STATUS
Display on page 3-36 for an example of this display.
OUT filename
indicates where Spoolcom is to write the device status. If not specified, the
status is written to the Spoolcom OUT file (usually the home terminal).
If OUT filename is specified, Spoolcom writes the data to it in a manner
suitable for the file type, process, or device. The filename parameter
must be specified; if the file does not exist, Spoolcom creates an EDIT file
(file type 101). The file can be an EDIT file, an unstructured file, a relative
file, an entry-sequenced file, a spooler job file, a process, or a device.