Bill
Well, in UV/AIX. Blank was the same as Form 0 as in zero. SP.ASSIGN HS was the same as SP.ASSIGN HSF0
I never got around to trying to name the printers and the forms, I only used form numbers. If you want to direct specific print outs to specific printers, you have to assign specific form numbers to the printers and the print jobs.
Use printer admin to assign form name to the printers. I haven't tried recently, but users usually can't change the settings on a printer. And can only change the settings on a print job that it owns. Or the superuser.
In your job control <proc,paragraph, program> code SP.ASSIGN F1 or SP.ASSIGN F2 etc.
The print job will default to your standard setptr, but will be reassigned to whatever printer. Of course, you can use SETPTR to do the same thing. And/or change form lenght and other stuff such as blank pages/ejects. Just remember to 'BRIEF' so it doesn't ask if the settings are okay.
Change only those jobs that you want directed to other then your main printer. Remember to also include a reset at the end of the job so following printouts will default again.
Once multiple printers became available twenty years ago, most of my jobs defaulted to a standard printer. We only modified those procs where the user wanted options. My last two companies used a job scheduler that also asked about printer assignments, which annoyed the users but solved having to constantly make changes.
Good Luck Roger
Brutzman, Bill wrote:
Right now, the FORM fields in the UV-Spooler are all blank.
We have something like three types of forms...
[1] blank paper (8.5 * 11) ... laser printers
[2] green_bar paper (wide carriage) ... impact printer [3] checks ... impact printer
Considering the SETPTR command... FORM option... Perhaps the only way is to specify form names in the UV-Spooler like...
Form = CUST and update all of the corresponding SETPTR commands to say
SETPTR... FORM CUST
Ugh...this would be a lot of work since many programs would be impacted.
Please confirm and thanks for writing...
--Bill
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