Configuring Xi-Text Form Types, Paper Types and Suffixes
What a form type is, the exact rule matching a job to a printer, and how a suffix changes without stopping the printer
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Xi-Text Printer Setup Files: What They Contain and When They Are Read
The files in a printer's directory, the order in which Xi-Text reads them, and how to tell whether one parsed
Tracking Xi-Batch Job Activity with LOGJOBS
Enabling the job log, reading its format, and rotating a file the scheduler never reopens
Tracking Xi-Batch Variable Changes with LOGVARS
Enabling the variable log, reading a line whose field count varies, and telling which job made a change
Removing Xi-Text from a System
What to save first, how to remove an RPM, Debian package or tarball, and what each route destroys, licence included
Removing Xi-Batch from a System
What to save first, how to remove an RPM, Debian package or tarball, and why only packaged routes delete the licence
Controlling the Xi-Batch Job Start Rate with STARTLIM and STARTWAIT
Two settings that bound how many jobs the scheduler starts at once, where they live, and why a change needs a restart
Diagnosing Why a Ready Xi-Batch Job Will Not Start
The eleven tests the scheduler applies to every job, what the operator can see for each, and the three that show nothing
Diagnosing Xi-Batch Variables That Do Not Reach Another Host
How an exported variable travels between schedulers, what a lost host does to it, and how to tell the two apart
Diagnosing and Clearing the Xi-Text Printer error State
What puts a printer into error, the messages Xi-Text writes when it happens, and the one command that starts it again
Distinguishing the Xi-Text offline State From error
What puts a printer offline rather than into error, and why nothing is written to the log when it happens
Diagnosing Why an Xi-Text Job Will Not Print
Every condition tested before a job reaches a printer, and why an unmatched job waits for ever, reporting nothing