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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!tinguely From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Subject: Re: Reordering Printer Queue ??? Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Message-ID: <CuzznK.KpH@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 17:09:20 GMT References: <3353or$320@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Organization: North Dakota State University Lines: 17 In article <3353or$320@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cd874@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andreas Priebe) writes: > >Hallo, > >can anybody tell me if there is a ROBUST possibility in the BSD printer >spooling system to achieve that the printer queue is reorderd according >to every new request arriving, so that large >jobs are printed after short ones (at least mostly). take a look at lpr/lpq/lpd replacement package named PLP Portable Line Printer Spooler). This package has printing classes. PLP originally written by Patrick Powell of U. of Minnesota, though a new release has been recently announced at: ftp.iona.ie:/pub/plp/plp-lpd-3.3.0beta.tar.gz --mark.