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Move files with a queue

Richard Wingate — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:50:00 GMT

Does anyone know if it is possible to set up a queue that would copy files to a remote location (disk) rather than send them to a printer? If it is possible, are there any examples out there to look at?

Re: Move files with a queue

Jim_McKinney — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:01:38 GMT

You could either create a custom print symbiont (MAILSYM might be a good example) or perhaps use John Osudar's EXECSYMB. Each can be found at http://vms.process.com/ftp/vms-freeware/fileserv/ .

Re: Move files with a queue

labadie_1 — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:06:39 GMT

On Dsn its (now dead) there was a command procedure doing decnet copy from one node to another using a batch queue, with submit/remote. The same procedure was acting as server on a side, as client on another side. I have been unable to find it on askq.compaq.com :-(

may be I have it somewhere, I will dig in my archives.

Re: Move files with a queue

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:18:59 GMT

If you don't like installing extra stuff :

Create a stopped queue. Let them print stuff and use a (permanently running) dcl procedure to extract the file name of the file to be printed and copy it to the remote node. Then delete the entry.

Should be possible in about 20 lines of dcl.

Wim

Re: Move files with a queue

Ian Miller. — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:45:05 GMT

Whats the purpose behind the queueing?

Re: Move files with a queue

Phillip Thayer — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:29:03 GMT

If all you want is to move files from one node to another when they are "ready" then why not create a holding directory and use a DCL procedure that runs on the system as a detached process to look at the holding directory and copy the files then delete them from the holding dorectory.

Phil

Re: Move files with a queue

Ian Miller. — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:32:08 GMT

or (more wild speculation :-) you can use FTSV/FTSO to delay the sending.

Re: Move files with a queue

Jiri_5 — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:05:16 GMT

we use DQS (DEC Distributed Queuing Service for OpenVMS AXP) for this.

Re: Move files with a queue

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:42:43 GMT

Here is something you can use directly.

Wim

Re: Move files with a queue

Verne Britton — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:18:39 GMT

I too read about EXECSYMB but have never actually tried it (does sound very good).

I had a need to capture text output originally sent to a printer, and modified a program in C from someone else to do this (within the Multinet TCP/IP stack). We needed to capture LPD output from a remote system rather than just printing it locally.

My version is called DRAIN and is on the v7 Freeware distribution and also at http://vaxa.wvnet.edu/vmswww/drain.html

Verne

Re: Move files with a queue

Richard Wingate — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:33:10 GMT

Thank you all. I will most likely go with a DCL script for this. This seems to be the easiest route.