Re^3: clear print queue in windows

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Yes I checked that thread but that didn't answer the question of clearing print queues. I used Win32::Printer::Enum as it suggested in that thread.
I'm new to use Perl in windows and any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Re^4: clear print queue in windows by Sinistral (Monsignor) on Feb 27, 2013 at 16:36 UTC
This seems to be a non-trivial problem, but maybe some of the more Win32 minded Monks can help, using the following resources as some inspiration: Re: Printing in NT List of resources of VB programmers wanting to control print jobs Stack Overflow question about controlling printing in Windows using Perl It seems like using Win32::API in conjunction with the winspool.drv DLL and calling SetJob with a null job will do the trick, but I can't give you the exact code that would accomplish this	[reply]

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Re^4: clear print queue in windows
by Sinistral (Monsignor) on Feb 27, 2013 at 16:36 UTC

This seems to be a non-trivial problem, but maybe some of the more Win32 minded Monks can help, using the following resources as some inspiration:

Re: Printing in NT
List of resources of VB programmers wanting to control print jobs
Stack Overflow question about controlling printing in Windows using Perl

It seems like using Win32::API in conjunction with the winspool.drv DLL and calling SetJob with a null job will do the trick, but I can't give you the exact code that would accomplish this

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