> From jkm at underscore.com Fri Mar 21 09:38:41 1997
>>> To solve this kind of problem, most of our software provides a special
> attribute named "allornone" that a user can specify to say "if any part
> of the job fails, then cancel the entire rest of the job". Part of the
> job processing involves ensure all specified attributes are valid for
> the target printer; hence, if "allornone" is specified--but one or more
> attributes is invalid for the target printer--then the job is cancelled
> (and a message is sent to the user describing the details of the failure).
>>> Comments?
>> ...jay
>
Am I correct that your "allornone" attribute is the same idea as the
best-effort job attribute we discussed today. The best-effort attribute
has at least two values. One is "honor-all-attributes-or-print-nothing",
and another is "print-and-try-your-best-to-honor-all-attributes".