Re: Question about lp5250d and SCS2ASCII

Hi James , thanks for your answer!
I'm sorry for the mistake, probably caused by my very BAD english and no, i
don't want that the split happens because i sometimes do some kind of
"postprocessing" of the output file and i really need to have only one file.
Means one spool file with one output file, nothing more and nothing less :-)

Looking at the spool file from the AS/400 side, dumping it with CPYSPLF
*FCFC and *PRTCTL it seems there isn't nothing special at the page where
the file get splitted.
Then i've generated a output file using Iseries Access for Windows using the
same configuration of lp5250d, and at the page where the split happens there
is no trace of the ÿ character, and the file is complete.

If i concatenate the two files i get when the problem happens, the output
pcl file is absolutely valid and usable.
So the lp5250d seems that sometimes receives some unpredictable char from
the AS/400 and closes the output file before the writer has completed the
job, then the writer still sends the remaining pages and the emulator
creates a new file.
This is what i've noticed, let me know if you need more informations and
tests.
Thanks a lot!
Ciao.
Alberto.



"James Rich" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Alberto wrote:

Small but important update :

I've did more tests about and i've noticed another thing :

The "split" seems it not depends from the size.
This is the scenario i've got :
1) spool file of 928 pages get splitted at page 560
the last chars (ASCII) of the output file(PCL) i get are
"1B26612D3030303132482D0DFF &a-00012H-?"

I'm a little bit confused. Do you want the split to happen or not? At
first I thought you were saying you wanted the spool file to be split, but
now it appears that you don't.

James Rich

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