Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA!rad From: rad@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Dick Dramstad) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: many many latsymbionts... Message-ID: <8712151604.AA15931@mitre-bedford.ARPA> Date: 15 Dec 87 16:04:02 GMT References: <8712031700.AA17699@mitre-bedford.ARPA> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Mass. Lines: 21 Kees, >According to the LAT documentation a LAT print symbiont can be created >with the command $ INITIALIZE/QUEUE/PROCESSOR=LATSYM >The (undesired) effect is that, due to the /PROCESSOR qualifier, for every >LAT printqueue a seperate symbiont is created. So there are as many LAT >symbiont processes as LAT printqueue's. My questions: >- is one LAT symbiont able to handle more than one LAT printqueue, like > the standard symbiont is able to serve several standard printqueue's ? According to a speaker at DECUS last week who talked about new features of VMS LAT software, the VMS Version 4.6 version of latsym is multi-threaded, and can support up to 32 print queues. >- if so, how to accomplish this ? It may be in the 4.6 release notes (LAT is talked about there since the LAT-Plus functionality (reverse LAT, etc.) is now bundled into regular VMS LAT. Dick Dramstad rad@mitre-bedford.arpa