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I see a lot of messages telling you this can be done, and how to do it, I'd just like to say that this is a fun project. I did something similar with archiving spooled files. Be aware that any special formatting (bold, underline, etc...) in the spool file will be lost when you do the CPYSPLF, but it doesn't sound like this will be a problem. I had done it the opposite way, taking a bunch of spool files and putting them into one spool file when I got the complete set. Then this went off to a PC and written to optical drive for storage. One thing I had done was create a little database that gave me some information on how to determine what spool file was what. It contained 4 or 5 fields, Line Number, Start Position, End Position, Text to match, File Name to output. Start Position and End Position told the program where in the text string to look for the text and the Line Number told it what record to look at. I sorted this file by Line Number, and simply went through the file comparing the lines until I received a match. Your scenario will be a little different, but you should probably create some file like this to help you maintain your report(s). Good luck and have fun! Regards, Jim Langston From: "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@taylorcorp.com> To: "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com> Subject: Break up spool file based on information within Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:51:30 -0500 Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com I have an interesting request, and I am not sure of the best way to do this. Brief History: We use a purchased product for our accounting systems. One of the reports in this software creates a report that we need to break up for distribution to other people. We don't want them to see everything, just the part that they are supposed to see. The report is laid out that there is a definite spot where you can tell where to break it apart. However, we are currently doing this manually. My questions: What I want to know is if anyone knows of a easy way to break this spool file apart automatically, without purchased products? We are willing to write a program to duplicate what the report does, in order to break this apart. But I am wondering if a program could be written to read through the report and copy the parts that we want out of the created spool file. We do have Brad's SPLTOOL to use (because these will be created into PDF files). Could this be done? Copy the spool file to a physical file, start reading though it. Since I know what positions to look at use that in combination of the page number and break it apart that way using SPLTOOL? Any thoughts? Thanks for any advice... Mike Wills
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