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'''[PRINTER]''' substitutes the "printerclass" string as specified in the [[OPEN display]] statement. For example, PRN:/printerclass. | '''[PRINTER]''' substitutes the "printerclass" string as specified in the [[OPEN display]] statement. For example, PRN:/printerclass. | ||
'''[ | '''[COPIES]''' substitutes the value of the COPIES= parameter as specified in the OPEN display statement. | ||
'''[WSID]''' substitutes the user's workstation ID. | |||
'''[PROGRAM]''' substitutes the name of the program that is loaded at the time that the printer is closed. | '''[PROGRAM]''' substitutes the name of the program that is loaded at the time that the printer is closed. | ||
The '''[QUEUE]''' and '''[PRINTER]''' parameters can be used almost interchangeably. They are simply a versatile way to pass specifications from the Open (or SUBSTITUTE) statement to the spooler. | The '''[QUEUE]''' and '''[PRINTER]''' parameters can be used almost interchangeably. They are simply a versatile way to pass specifications from the Open (or SUBSTITUTE) statement to the spooler. | ||
NOTE: The spoolfile created by Business Rules will not automatically be deleted. | NOTE: The spoolfile created by Business Rules will not automatically be deleted. | ||
SPOOLCMD supports the -w flag which avoids the use of a DOS shell command when calling Windows applications directly. The Windows Client SPOOLCMD syntax is: | |||
SPOOLCMD supports the -w flag which avoids the use of a DOS shell command when calling Windows applications directly. The | |||
SPOOLCMD [@] [-w] command parm-1 parm-2 ... | SPOOLCMD [@] [-w] command parm-1 parm-2 ... | ||
Revision as of 11:22, 6 August 2014
SPOOLCMD is mainly useful for producing print files for Linux and MAC systems. In Windows systems the DIRECT://printer-name is preferred. Also see the PRINTING section.
Basically, SpoolCmd provides a description of how to print data sent to the printer.
Business Rules supports independent spoolers on all systems. The BRConfig.sys SPOOLCMD specification will make a shell call to issue the necessary spool command whenever printing is done. When this is invoked the spooler is responsible for removing the spool file created by Business Rules.
The spool command and its parameters can be specified in a CONFIG command or in the BRConfig.sys file as follows:
Business Rules can also make substitutions as follows in parameters specified with SPOOLCMD:
[SPOOLFILE] substitutes the name of the spool file, as determined by Business Rules.
[NAME=] substitutes the name of the printer file as specified in the OPEN display statement's NAME= string. For example, PRN:/10.
[QUEUE] substitutes the queue name as specified in the OPEN display statement. In the following example, "queue" would be substituted for [QUEUE]: PRN:queue/10.
[PRINTER] substitutes the "printerclass" string as specified in the OPEN display statement. For example, PRN:/printerclass.
[COPIES] substitutes the value of the COPIES= parameter as specified in the OPEN display statement.
[WSID] substitutes the user's workstation ID.
[PROGRAM] substitutes the name of the program that is loaded at the time that the printer is closed.
The [QUEUE] and [PRINTER] parameters can be used almost interchangeably. They are simply a versatile way to pass specifications from the Open (or SUBSTITUTE) statement to the spooler.
NOTE: The spoolfile created by Business Rules will not automatically be deleted.
SPOOLCMD supports the -w flag which avoids the use of a DOS shell command when calling Windows applications directly. The Windows Client SPOOLCMD syntax is:
SPOOLCMD [@] [-w] command parm-1 parm-2 ...
SPOOLCMD honors BR drive substitution on the command itself, for example:
DRIVE J:,M:\myapp,j,\ SPOOLCMD J:\mylib\spooler [SPOOLFILE] [COPIES]
This finds 'spooler' in M:\myapp\mylib.
See also: