RE: Max spool entries 10,000 per JOB??

"Allen, Mark" <ALLENMA1@Mattel.com> wrote (in part):

>We have an automated production reporting system.  As each finished good
>item travels on a conveyor from final assembly to the distribution center it
>is scanned.  That record is then processed against the bill of material to
>relieve component inventory (among other things).  When the program that
>relieves component inventory runs it produces a report showing what was
>relieved.  This report goes to an outq that is not attached to a printer.
>This outq is cleared weekly.  The only time the report is looked at is if
>there is a perceived inventory relief problem.  So for each finished good
>item produced there is a spool file.  We will make anywhere from 5000 to
>25000 finished good items per 24 hour period.


Good heavens!!

Why don't you create an audit file?  Write the wame information to the
audit file that would normally get printed.  Chances are the audit file
will be smaller than the spool file, too.  You'll get the information for
reference purposes, without running into the spool file problems.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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