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Re: print job gone bad--how to kill



Thus spake Gary Turner:
> I was going to make a hard copy of a howto, except that at about the
> 50th page it stops all line feeds.(three times now at the same spot, so
> I suspect the file rather than the printer)  I've used lpc to stop and
> abort.  Of course all that happened then was that the job cranked up
> again when I got my printer re-aligned and on-line.  I know that I've
> seen something on controlling this little beastie, but it's 2:40a and my
> brain has stopped functioning.  Can I just delete the file from the
> print spool?  Or will that crap up some other something I'm gonna want
> someday?
> 
> There's bound to be something more elegant.  Please point me in the
> right direction.
lpq to get job number.
lprm <job number> to dump it.
HTH,
Steve
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