[COBOL400-L] RE: Control characters in spoolfiles

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

Geir:

Just be sure some of the earlier responses are clear:

 ==> ovrprtf QPRINT  ctlchar(*FCFC)
 ==> cpyf    fromfile(mylib/splfilepf) tofile(QPRINT)

That's about all there is to it.

There are much more detailed ways if you need a lot more control. But once 
you've got the spooled file data in a physical file and it includes form 
control characters, you can just copy it back out to an appropriate printer 
file.

Tom Liotta

cobol400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   1.  Control characters in spoolfiles (geir.kildal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
>Once upon a time, there was an operator, who copied a spoolfile to a 
>physical file, using, CPYSPLF.  Then the original spoolfile was deleted 
>and gone forever, he thought.
>
>But, is there a way to reconstruct the spoolfile, given the PF the 
>spoolfile was copied into?.  I've been thinking of creating a small pgm, 
>that reads the PF, and writes to a PRTF.  I can see the control characters 
>from the spoolfile.  They  are "1"(new page), "-"(I don't know), "0"(I 
>don't know) and " "(blank- I don't know).
>
>Where can I find the meaning of these control characters, or even better - 
>is there a way to "reconvert" the PF back to the original PRTF? 

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