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The ScriptServer® PAN Printing System
(PAN) command line print job submission tool, panpr
, can misinterpret
absolute file specifications as unknown command qualifiers.
panpr
accepts qualifiers started with
"/" as well as with "-"GrayMatter Software has been selling its (DEC/Compaq/HP)
OpenVMS printing product for many years. A component of that product
is the SCRIPT
command, which is a replacement for the standard
PRINT
command with many additional output features. The panpr
command is analogous to the SCRIPT
command, in fact most of the
qualifiers are identical.
On OpenVMS, command qualifiers start with "/", not the
"-" which is common on Unix-like operating systems. So,
the panpr
command accepts both... and as a consequence it can suffer
confusion when it sees a file specified as an absolute path.
In the following examples we will assume the following:
working directory: /home/joe
file to be printed: /var/data/reports/list.txt
Both of these will work, because the path to the file is specified with relative (no leading "/") syntax:
panpr /queue=Maven ../../var/data/reports/list.txt
panpr -queue=Maven ../../var/data/reports/list.txt
Using an absolute path, one of the following will work and one will not.
This one fails, because after seeing the qualifier which begins with a "/",
panpr
assumes anything beginning with "/" is a qualifier:
panpr /queue=Maven /var/data/reports/list.txt
This one succeeds, because the qualifier begins with a "-", and so
panpr
assumes that the "/" introduces a file name:
panpr -queue=Maven /var/data/reports/list.txt
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