LISTPTR

Displays printer or formqueue status.

SYNTAX

LISTPTR {options}

SYNTAX ELEMENTS

Option	Explanation
n	displays the specified Printer/Formqueue
n-m	displays a range of Printer/Formqueue from n to m inclusive

NOTES

LISTPTR has a jCL output interface. The status of the requested printer/formqueues are written into the secondary input buffer,separated by spaces or attribute marks depending on the type of jCL program.

EXAMPLE 1







  

    PRINTER

    

    --- FORMQ ---

    PAGE

    STATUS

    DEVICE

  

  

    TYPE

    NUMBER

    

    SKIP

    

    

  

  

    LPTR

        1

    F1

    3

    KILLED

    /dev/lp

  

  

    PROG

       20

    F20

    2

    PRINTING

    rsh HostB -l spooler

  

  

    PROG

       30

    F39

    1

    NO DEVICE

    0

The printer number is a reference to the Formqueue number. This number can be matched to Formqueues created with Formqueue name Fn, where n is the Form queue number. The page skip, status and device fields are as per SP-JOBS.

EXAMPLE 2

1134 1171 1 1 127 127 3

Shows typical output to the secondary input buffer of a jCL program. 1134 is the LISTPTR error message identifier. 1171 means that the printer/formqueue is inactive, the printer number is 1, the formqueue number is 1, 127 is reserved and 3 is the number of page skips.

Spooler