Spooler Utilities Reference Manual

Peruse

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Running Peruse Interactively

To run Peruse interactively, do not specify Peruse commands in the command line

when starting Peruse. Peruse displays its program banner, copyright message, and

prompt, an underscore ( _ ). An example follows:

If you send a job to print on a remote system, you can start Peruse on that system to

examine the status of your job. Peruse displays the name of the supervisor process on

the remote node, following the copyright message. The following output indicates that

your job has finished printing:

Running Peruse Noninteractively

To run Peruse noninteractively, specify Peruse commands in the command line when

you start Peruse. You can enter multiple commands, separated by semicolons, in a list

up to 132 characters long. Peruse will execute the commands and then terminate.

The following command causes Peruse to display information on all the jobs you have

in the spooler queue and then list the last page of the most recently spooled job before

terminating.

1> PERUSE

PERUSE - T9101D48 - (30MAR2001) SYSTEM \EAST

1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991

T9101D48 is the product version of Peruse.

(30MAR2001) is the release date for this version of Peruse.

\EAST is the system on which it is running.

4> \WEST.PERUSE

PERUSE - T9101D48 - (30MAR2001) SYSTEM \WEST

1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1989, 1991

SPOOLER SUPERVISOR IS \WEST.$SPLS

1> PERUSE; JOB; LIST LAST