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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.mindlink.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!nadine From: nadine@seymour.ucs.ualberta.ca (Nadine Leenders) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Queuing Question Date: 8 Jul 1996 20:11:03 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4rrq0n$nj8@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <4qn5nu$svs@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <31D09F31.6DB0F89A@lambert.org> <4qsacn$l7@anorak.coverform.lan> <31D36032.688CEF55@lambert.org> <4r3tqv$84@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: solstice.ucs.ualberta.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Brian Somers (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote: : Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : : I still think it was a job queue, though. 8-). : I received mail from the original poster. She's using the queues to : print - you're probably correct. : Sorry about my confusion about message queues. : -- : Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> : Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... I was on vacation last week and may have missed something here (I thought our system would save stuff for 10 days, guess I was wrong.) My queues don't actually cause anything to be printed, so I guess they are job queues. One of the queues sends the resulting file to another machine from which it is actually plotted. This was done because the software to interpret the PostScript was available for a Sun and the best hardware to connect to the plotter was available for an RS6000. -- Nadine Leenders | Computing and Network Services | nadine.leenders@ualberta.ca University of Alberta |