printing zero block length files

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Are you sure it's being caused by the zero blocks ? You never have stalled queues with other files ? Do some of the zero files pass ?

How does Cache print the file ? We used DSM and there the applic wrote to "1" which was a logical name pointing to an LTA device that was spooled to a queue. But we didn't have any problems with it.

Wim

[Rich Hearn]

Wim,

Interesting... Back when we ran DSM, (Alpha 8200's, Ovms 7.3-2, DSM) I don't recall us running into this problem. Since Caché, we seem to have. I've not seen us "stall" for other than HW problems with the current systems. I've never known of a zero length file "passing", because if it doesn't stall the queue, I don't hear of it.

Caché (to the best of *my* knowledge) is given a printer name (by the user) which points to an NLP device associated with a common spooled device (IDXSPOOL = Sys$SpoolDevice:[IDXSPOOL]} and it's own queue by the same name as the printer (aee attached for example).

Thanks for the interest and the perspective.
Rich
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