HP 3000 Manuals

Native Mode Spooler Reference Manual

PURGE 

Deletes a file from the system. 

Syntax 

PURGE filereference[,TEMP]

Enhancements 

You may purge a nonprivate output spool file by entering PURGE spool file 
where spool file is the file name of the spool file.  The PURGE command
deletes the specified spool file, its spool file directory (SPFDIR)
entry, and any checkpoint files that may exist for the spool file.  The
spool file does not print after it has been purged.


NOTE  The PURGE command cannot be used on a private spool file nor can it
      be used on any file to which it does not have exclusive access.
      For that reason, it cannot be used on a spool file in the PRINT
      state because the spool file has been opened by an output spooler
      process.  Use the SPOOLF...;DELETE command instead.

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