Hi Neil.

29-Sep-03 17:45:00, Neil Heller wrote to All


 NH> Help...

 NH> I was printing (on an ink jet printer) about a dozen or so topics
 NH> from my Linux (Mandrake 8.1) man pages.  When the last topic had
 NH> spent about 15 minutes printing I took a look at the file it was
 NH> printing:  400+k bytes.  That would have taken hours and would
 NH> have eaten several print cartridges.  I shut off the printer.

 NH> Can anybody tell me how I can remove this print task (which should
 NH> hopefully remove the spool file from disk)?

in general on *nix systems on a command-line (bash etc) you do lpq
to get a list of the jobs waiting to print

and then do lprm with the apropriate job number (or name) to kill the job.

dunno if mandrake has some GUI way to do the same or not.

 -=> Bye <=-

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