Printers at the HHT				Feb 15, 2001

    The printer queue "LASERJET" used by Kronen and Frankenheim to print on the
Control Room printer had to be changed when that printer was changed to a
network (instead of terminal server) printer.  The VMS machines can no longer
send print jobs directly to the printer in the Control Room.  Instead they send
the print to the lw40 queue on Jever.  

    The change has a few side effects.  The standard PRINT command works as
before, but the /FORM qualifier can't be used to change the appearance of the 
print job.  This is seldom used except when one wants a job printed in 
landscape orientation.  To get landscape, one must run the file through a
postscript filter program such as postprint or prtpost on Jever.  The old alias
prw which used to print the specified file with the landscape /FORM now does an
rsh to Jever to run the file through prtpost and then print it.  Consequently,
prw will only work if one runs it from an account that Jever allows rsh (such
as SMTSYS and OBS). 

    Another side effect is that the print job is only in the LASERJET queue,
long enough to transfer the file to Jever.  Once that is done, it's removed
from the queue even before the file is printed.  So if you want to cancel 
a print job, the usual DELETE/ENTRY=<job number> (aka KILL <job number> to
SMTSYS) probably won't work.  Instead you use the alias lprm on the VMS 
machine.  (You won't have permission to do this on Jever.)

	lprm [<job number>]

If you omit the optional <job number>, lprm will delete all print jobs on 
lw40 under your username.  Note that the <job number> here is NOT the VMS
one but the Jever one.  You can see the jobs and their numbers in the Jever
lw40 queue with lpq (on VMS and on Jever). 

	Note that jobs printed with the alias, prw, are an exception.  Since
these were created with the rsh to Jever, they are Jever jobs and can only 
be canceled by executing an lprm command on Jever (or another Sun).

    The printer that was in the Control Room is now in the office on queue
LASERJET2.  (To the Suns, this printer is known as lw41.) It operates just like
when it was in the Control Room, except that you have to use the
/QUEUE=LASERJET2 qualifier on the print command.  An alias has been defined to
make this more convenient, OPRINT (O for "office"). This can be abbreviated
OPRIN or OPRI.  Another one, PLOT2 has been defined to send a postscript plot
(actually any postscript file) to the office printer.  It works just like PLOT
in that if you omit the file name, it assumes PLOT.PS.  (PLOT works on the 
Control Room printer, just as before.)

    If you want to print a file in landscape mode on the office printer, the 
alias, prwide (abbr. prwi), will do it.  (prwi is equivalent to the old prw
alias but for the LASERJET2 queue.)