Therein lies the mystery.
My first level printer IS started and nothing is in the queue, nor is it being written to the associated file.
On Wed, 2024-10-23 at 19:00 -0400, Ross Patterson wrote:
Suppose I dial my guest system and logon as a user.? I can print a file and I see it show up on the operator console of the VM guest:
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16:13:46 PRT ?00E OUTPUT OF DAN ? ? ?FILE ?= 0027 RECDS= 000005 COPY= 01 ?A PRT
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After seeing the message, a Q PRT by the Operator shows no files.
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There is also no output added to my redirected listing file.?
Your second-level user wrote a file to its virtual printer.? The second-level CP created a second-level SPOOL file to collect and store that print data.? When the file was closed, t
he second-level CP wrote the SPOOL file's contents to a printer.? That printer is actually a first-level virtual printer, so the first-level CP created a?first-level?SPOOL file to collect and store the print data that the second-level CP wrote.? If your?first-level?CP doesn't have a STARTed printer accepting print files, it will just sit in the first-level SPOOL until you #CP START one.
A first-level Q PRT should show this.
Ross
