[Info-vax] Can't find file retained on error

[AEF]

On Feb 24, 11:00 am, abrsvc <dansabrservi... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Feb 24, 9:35 am, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On Feb 23, 9:42 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
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> > Koehler) wrote:
> > > In article <631245ee-21da-46a2-9d83-7fc48863e... at y30g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, tadamsmar <tadams... at yahoo.com> writes:
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> > > > Does the "completed time" indicate that the file was eventually
> > > > printed at that time?   Sometimes the completed time is much later
> > > > than the submitted time (on the the examples I posted).  These files
> > > > were logger message and I guess they were printed out of order if the
> > > > printing was delayed to the completion time.
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> > >    I suspect the file was printed at that time.  One of the reasons
> > >    for having queues is to ask for work that will happen later, for
> > >    a variety of reasons.
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> > Interestingly, sometimes the file is printed somewhat later. At one
> > place I worked, the secretaries complained that the get messages
> > telling them the print job was done (I forget exactly what and how).
> > They said that they would go to the printer and the output wasn't
> > there yet. (They were using ALLIN1 with WordPerfect). So it took a
> > while sometimes before the printer was done (other jobs in the way -
> > printer being slow - etc.). I tried to explain it to them, but they
> > were understandably annoyed. Oh well.
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> > AEF
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> The completion message is fro the queue and indicates that the file
> was correctly and completely transmitted.  If the file is buffered
> within the printer (which is common), than there could be a difference
> between the reported completion time and the actual print time.
>
> Dan

Yes, I know. That's precisely what I had trouble explaining to them! I
thought I mentioned such things. No problemo.

AEF