Spooler Plus Utilities Reference Manual

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FONT Command

The FONT command causes the spooler to recognize a job as a font job and to

associate that job with a specified font name. A font job contains commands that can

be sent to a programmable printer to control such features as character sets, vertical

forms-control specifications, or compressed printing. Once a font job is defined, you

can use the LOC FONT subcommand to associate it with a spooler location.

If you are an authorized user, you can use the FONT command to define a font job,

delete a font job associated with a specific font name, or obtain the status of a job that

is associated with a specific font name.

Refer to the Guardian System Operations Guide for more information on configuring a

printer with special-control formatting capabilities using the FONT command.

All users can display the status of all font jobs or of a job that is associated with a

specific font name.

font-name

identifies the specific font name associated with the job number. The font-name

parameter can be specified as 1 through 16 letters or digits; the first character must

be a letter.

subcommand

is one of the subcommands described below. If subcommand is not specified,

STATUS is assumed. Users who are not system operators (user ID 255, n) can

use these subcommands to change the attributes and status of their own jobs only.

DELETE

specifies a font name to be deleted.

JOB [ job-number | ( qualifiers ) ]

requires either a job number or sufficient qualifiers to uniquely identify a job.

If neither job-number nor qualifiers is specified, the spooler specifies the

same font name for all jobs on the system.

job-number

specifies a particular job to be associated with font-name.

FONT [ font-name [ , subcommand ] ]