Connie Samuel wrote in message ...
>[log in to unmask],Internet writes:
>>You shouldn't have to do anything in :SYSGEN to configure "fake" printer
>>devices. Just go into :NMMGR and create a fraudulent DTC (probably a 48
>>or a
>>72 so you have lots of ports), fill it up with 8-port phantom cards if
>>it's
>>a 48, and assign those ultralightweight ports the LDEV numbers you want to
>>use.
>>
>>Steve
>
>This is what I did to make our laser jet printers on a Novell network
>"work" with NBSPOOL.  Works great.  Also in SYSSTART.PUB I have OPENQ on
>each of the phantom ports.
>
Since you just need the device class name you might want to consider using
STOPSPOOL <ldev>;OPENQ instead of just OPENQ.  This way no one can
accidentally try to print to the phantom ldev and cause it to shut it's
queue.  Just a thought.

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