Art writes:
>     As dumb as it sounds.... are you using any spooler management tools,
> such as Casper from SRN/Lund/who knows who wrote it originally hehehe)???
>
>    I saw this at the foundation and the situation was usually caused by the
> Nucleus Menu System (another app we used) keeping ahold of the spoolfile
> until the user exitted the menu system.  This was only if they called
> Casper from a Nucleus menu option....

CASPER is from Lund Performance Solutions, and is often renamed "SPOOK.PUB.SYS"
so people can use the old SPOOK interface.  I wrote and maintain it :)

Just like the original SPOOK (and, later, MPEX), if it was run from another program,
it would default to staying alive (but suspended) if you "EXIT" it.  This was
a SPOOK (and MPEX) feature that was and is quite useful to many users, particularly
QEDIT users.

If you tell CASPER to "QUIT" instead of "EXIT", it will terminate.

If you open a spoolfile, and then "EXIT" and CASPER was the child of a program
other than the top-level CI, it will stay alive (suspended), which leaves the
spoolfile open.

However, that isn't the problem here....

>> I've got a spoolfile that I can not get rid of. I can't print it. If you try
>> to delete it, it stays in delete pending. Your can use the print command on
>> the file without a problem. The listf & purgelink commands return wierd
>> info....

> listf o116.out.hpspool,8
> ********************
> FILE: O116.OUT.HPSPOOL
> 1 Accessor(O:1,P:1,L:0,W:0,R:1),Share
> system  MANAGER.SYS                P:1,L:0,W:0,R:1      LDEV:

Note that the accessor is "system".  If it was CASPER, it would look like:

FILE: O8024.OUT.HPSPOOL
1 Accessor(O:1,P:1,L:0,W:0,R:1),Share
#S260   EM,STAN.SIELER             P:1,L:0,W:0,R:1      REM : 198.102.6.11

I.e., "#S260" (or some such) instead of "system" would be shown.

BTW, option 9 provides a little more information, and I'd suggest trying
that on the original problem spoolfile:

:listfile o8024.out.hpspool,9
********************
FILE: O8024.OUT.HPSPOOL
1 Accessor(O:1,P:1,L:0,W:0,R:1),Share
#S260   EM,STAN.SIELER             P:1,L:0,W:0,R:1      REM : 198.102.6.11
 #P108   (SPOOK.PUB.SYS)
   ACCESS: R-excl            REC#: 0                    FNUM: 9
    LOCKS: none

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