Ron,

Yes you can. I've added and deleted many devices. Just make sure that
the device in question is not in use at the time you do the DTCCNTRL. If
it's a printer, stopspool it and make sure nothing opens it hot.

John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Burnett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 7:39 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Dynamic Configuration (of DTCs)
>
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Anyone know if you can dynamically DELETE a class name
> from a DTC profile?
>
> HELP DYNCONF from within NMMGR indicates that you
> can dynamically ADD a device class name, but does not
> explicitly state that you can DELETE one.
>
> I need to do this, because I am converting a couple of devices
> from UNISPOOL control to network printers and want to
> preserve the class names so I don't have to change any application
> software (i.e., all that I should have to do is delete the UNISPOOL
> configuration entries, delete the class names in NMMGR, create
> new devices with IOCONFIG using the same class names that
> I have just deleted in NMMGR, and then add their entries to
> the NPCONFIG file).
>
> Anyone done this?  I don't want to risk a sys failure or force a
> reboot on a **VERY** busy production system.
>
> Ron Burnett (being a bit wimpish in Melbourne)
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