stop a print job in OSX ? re: lprm, whatis and cancel
stop a print job in OSX ? re: lprm, whatis and cancel
- Subject: stop a print job in OSX ? re: lprm, whatis and cancel
- From: Tony <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:51:28 -0700
Emmanuel, Thankyou very much for your detailed suggestions.
"lprm" certainly stops the printer but in mid page and I have to send
another print request from Appleworks to free the page. "cancel" does
not seem to work as the printer completes printing the page without
stopping.
I have tried to use "apropos" to find other commands to throw the page
but I get a message saying that I do not have the "whatis" database. I
have tried to use "makewhatis" to make the database using:
do shell script "/usr/libexec/makewhatis"
but I get the message /usr/share/man/whatis.db.tmp permission
denied
I have looked at the "sudo" command but it is getting a bit deep and
dangerous for me. Tony.
On Monday, Apr 21, 2003, at 02:12 US/Pacific, Emmanuel wrote:
At 9:29 PM -0700 20/04/03, Tony wrote:
Thankyou very much for your message. It will take me a little while
to use your suggested approach as I have no experience with the use
of terminal but I shall look at it to see what I can do.
Let me propose my help here.
Like you, I need to run shell scripts. Actually I run tenths/hundreds
of them daily. And I don't want to learn how to use Terminal. I have
finally found that the AppleScript environment is better for me than
Terminal to make up and run shell scripts.
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do shell script "lprm"
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Emmanuel
[1] URL <http://www.satimage.fr/software/downloads/Getman.sit>
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