Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 15:48:41 -0400
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From: Ilhamuddin Ahmed <ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: <amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Wed, 9 Aug 89 14:19:30 -0400 <8908091819.AA14519@GEVALT.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Questions about Palladium
Reply-To: ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
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Before I start, I should be noted that the man pages are seriously out
and date and has lots of typos ... new ones are in the middle of being
written. 

Rhu>	Being interested in the options that pdpr will give us (most interested
Rhu>	in continuing to use -h), I came across these questions based on the
Rhu>	man page:

The -h option of lpr can be emulated with the -B option of pdpr which
should supress the banner page.

Rhu>	Will "brief" save the extra piece of paper?  And does pdpr want
Rhu>	"breif" or is that a manpage typo?

It should actually be "Brief" and "Full" (they are case sensitive) where
Brief is currently the default. [I know the problem with specifying a
banner which does not exist.] The only difference between the two is
that "Full" shows the Athena owl whereas Brief does not.

Rhu>	Does Palladium do any magic-number tests, or will we have to explicitly
Rhu>	declare our PostScript files?  If the latter, I suggest that the default
Rhu>	is wrong, since an Ascii file interpreted as PS generates 0 or 1 pages of
Rhu>	output, while a PS file printed as Ascii will generate gobs (which is, I
Rhu>	believe, the technical term :-).

It does do magic-number tests so queuing a postscript file / ascii file
/ standard input will do the right thing.

Rhu>	What events are these?  They weren't enumerated on the man page, unless
Rhu>	I missed them...

Event are the notifications that one can get when the state of a job
changes. Currently the events are :

	jobstart       /* on server reciept */
	jobend         /* when spvr is done */
	printstart     /* when spvr starts printing */
	jobabort       /* when spvr chokes on file */
	jobcancel      /* when a job is killed, either
                          by a user or administrator */

These notifications default to zephyr for Athena but mail notification
can also be specified. 

Rhu>	It may be that these are silly questions; I'm not in E40 right now so I
Rhu>	can't test to find the answers, but they're things that raise exception
Rhu>	flags in my mind....

No problem at all .... of course if you find any bug send them to
bugs@athena.mit.edu and I will look at them as soon as I can.

							- Ilham