Re: sending a printout to several printers

boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:
> 
> I went to IBM's Redbook page and it said:
> ---------------------------------------
> "The Copy Spooled File (CPYSPLF) command copies the data records in the
> specified spooled file to a user-defined physical data-base file. ...Print
> lines that are all blank are not copied.
> 
> When you copy a spooled file to a physical file, certain information is
> lost or changed, including: ...
> 
> If the CPYF command is used to copy the data back to another spooled file,
> additional information is lost, including: ...
> ---------------------------------

Not quite...if you specify *FCFC on the CPYSPLF and the OVRPRTF with the
CPYF back you only lose special things like barcodes, font changes,
anything but plain text and double printing.

> So, it seems to me that this technique can't be reliable.  I'll give it a
> try though. Thanks for all of the replies.
> 
> uucp

Roger Vicker, CCP
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