Print job still spooling after FORM command executed

[Kenneth Brody]

Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> Kenneth Brody wrote:
>> Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>>> There is an older program on my system that I didn't write.  While in 
>>> IUA on an invoice record an @KEY command calls a separate processing 
>>> table to print the invoice.  The table calculates the necessary 
>>> fields and then generates the printout with a FORM command.  What I 
>>> noticed today is that the job remains open for spooling in the queue 
>>> after this is done and the queue doesn't close allowing the job to 
>>> print until you exit out of IUA.
>>>
>>> Apparently it's always acted the same way, but I didn't know this 
>>> since I don't run this program myself and no one told me about it.
>>>
>>> According to my reading of the manual FORM should close the spool and 
>>> allow the job to print.  What could stop this from happening?
>> If filePro thinks the output is going to a file, rather than a pipe, 
>> then it will not close the file after each form.  What is the exact 
>> destination filePro has been told to use?
>>
> It is going to a file.  Is there a way to get it to close the file from 
> within the processing table?

If it's going to a file, then what is sending it to the spooler?

I forget if PRINTER RESET will force the file to be closed in this scenario, 
but you can try it.

-- 
Kenneth Brody