Re: Page Separator

Perhaps you could write your own LPD and then point your LPR to it and then
have this custom LPD do the cover page business and the LPR to the printer?
Just a thought (Definitely a Rube Goldberg if there ever was one :-)

Eric

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Eric N. Wilson
President
Doulos Software & Computer Services
2913 N Alder St.
Tacoma WA 98407


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lemen, George (Contractor)" <george.lemen@weyerhaeuser.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 8:55 AM
Subject: RE: Page Separator


> Peter --
>  I'd expect the AS/400 to call the exit program as it creates the
datastream
> to send out. Conceptually, the same place the existing exit is called by
the
> spool writer when printing to a "local" AS/400 device. ("Local" in this
case
> simply means a printer device description exists on the AS/400. In the
case
> of LPR there is no corresponding AS/400 device description.)
>  If you'd like, we can discuss off-line.
>  Best regards
> George Lemen
> Sr. Project Analyst
> CIBER Inc
> Weyerhaeuser CER Technical Support and Operations Manager
> Weyerhaeuser phone: (253) 924-7975
> Weyerhaeuser e-mail: george.lemen@weyerhaeuser.com
> CIBER Phone (425) 451-2575 x142
> CIBER E-mail: glemen@ciber.com
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: Peter Dow[SMTP:pcdow@yahoo.com]
> > Reply To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 7:47 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Page Separator
> >
> > Hi George,
> >
> > And the exit program would put that text at the front of the print data
> > stream so that the remote system would simply think it's another page of
> > the
> > report? And therefore the separator page flag wouldn't be necessary.
> >
> > When would your exit program be called? How would it be different than
the
> > existing exit program?
> >
> > Curious,
> > Peter Dow
> > Dow Software Services, Inc.
> > 909 425-0194 voice
> > 909 425-0196 fax
> >
> > From: Lemen, George (Contractor) <george.lemen@weyerhaeuser.com>
> > > What I'm advocating is an exit program (preferably compatible with the
> > exit
> > > API already in the AS/400 and used when you specify the separator page
> > > program name in a device description) that would provide the text for
> > the
> > > separator page.
> >
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