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Printing During a Pass Thru Session
When you are running Pass Thru for a spooled printer, there are three
ways you can close your spool file and send it to the printer without
interrupting your Pass Thru session:
1. The PRT option,which you specify in the PTCONFIG file, sets a
receive timer (from 0 through 28800 seconds) for the HP 3000
printer. If the timer expires before data has been received from
the IBM host for that printer, Pass Thru closes the current spool
file and opens a new spool file to continue receiving data from
the host. Output from the closed spool file can then be printed.
The PRT option is used with LU.T1 and LU.T3 sessions. The PRT
option is described in chapter 2, "Configuring Pass Thru."
2. The CLPRT softkey,which you configure in the PTCONFIG file,
closes the current spool file and and opens a new one. The CLPRT
softkey is used with LU.T2 sessions. See "User-Defined Softkey
Functions," in chapter 5, for information on the CLPRT softkey.
For information on configuring the CLPRT softkey, see chapter 2,
"Configuring Pass Thru."
3. The SEND CLOSErequest, described later in this chapter under
"Entering Printer Commands and Adjusting Page Length," closes the
current spool file and opens a new one. The SEND CLOSE request
is used with LU.T1 and LU.T3 sessions.
SNA IMF automatically closes the spool file when an UNBINDis received for
the LU-LU session.
On MPE V, if a system line printeris acquired by SNA IMF/V as unspooled,
no other MPE user may access that printer until either the SNA IMF
communication line to the host is shut down or the Pass Thru program ends
or is released. SNA IMF/XL does not support unspooled printers.