Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 13:10, Mike McCarty wrote:Consider it a theoretical question then. What should a multiuser queuing system do when certain things have to be done between certain jobs? I haven't played withIMO, this is best handled by the system *before* it hits the queue. I've used systems which had what one might call meta-queues. One queued output to a meta-queue, and the system picked which printer to use, and would inform the user where to get the output. Then the job would get queued to the actual print queue. With this type of setup, one could queue to the meta-queue, which would then, after submitting the print, put a logical lock on the actual queue until all the print job was complete.You can do the filtering wherever you want and the system can choose any printer in a class for you, but the problem here is that you need human intervention in the middle of a job that no longer has a connection to a human. You need a way to keep the even pages from printing until the paper is physically ready.
One way to do that is to send e-mail, and not continue
until a reply is received.
Mike
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