Re: Question about lp5250d and SCS2ASCII

[Scott Klement <tn5250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you tell us how to reproduce this problem?   You don't have to debug 
lp5250d for us -- just tell us how we can create the same problem on our 
machines.


On 4/23/2010 2:52 AM, Alberto wrote:
> 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.