RE: CPYSPLF and retain format

As I was laying in bed last night, I re-recognized the importance of what
you said here, Tom.  There is a bug in the RPG code I posted.  It doesn't
handle overprinting correctly.

So either:
a) You change the number of EXCEPT statements, and don't bother to handle
overprinting.
b) You set up a method of merging two records from SPLF_WRK into one record
of SPLF_FMT.

Either way, you DON'T put any spacing attributes on the O-spec, as it won't
compile.

Coding choices relate DIRECTLY to the definition of the problem to be
solved.  This is my take from Tom's questions.

jt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of thomas@inorbit.com
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:24 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: CPYSPLF and retain format
>
>
> Mike:
>
> On Sat, 17 November 2001, "Condon, Mike" wrote:
>
> > I want to copy a spool file to a physical file, but have it end
> up in the
> > physical file
> > in the format it would appear as if it were printed. Is there a
> (hopefully
> > easy) way to do this?
>
> Are you asking about placing a specific spoolfile into a PF? or
> _any_ spoolfile into a PF? And exactly how close would you want
> _any_ spoolfile to appear? E.g., if an element is bolded in the
> spoolfile, would it be bolded in the PF? Underlined, etc? If the
> page length was 88 lines and there were only 10 printed lines on
> the page, would you want 78 blank records?
>
> Are you familiar with using CPYSPLF with the *FCFC option? In
> general, once you've got the spoolfile into an intermediate PF
> with *FCFC, you can read that PF and place the records into your
> final PF with blank lines inserted according to the supplied
> control characters with a pretty simple RPG. Bold, underline,
> etc., wouldn't be so easy though _possible_ if you could
> guarantee viewing via 5250 I suppose.
>
> What's the objective for this? Viewing instead of printing?
> archiving? transfer to other systems?
>
> Tom Liotta
>
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