re: sending a printout to several printers

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BoothM Said:

>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: ...
>---------------------------------
>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.


There's a parameter....  forget the name, but one of the values is *FCFC.
When you copy your file to a PF, you add an additional character (ie a 132
printout becomes a 133 file) to contain the *FCFC.  THis is the space/skip
information that lets a CPYF TOFILE(QSYSPRT) re-create your document just
the way it was.


--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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