Re: Spool file to physical file in a ile program

[ywexler@xxxxxxx]

Bruce Odum wrote:
> 
> What is the best way to take a spool file that is built in a ile rpg program
> and when it is finished copy it to a standard PF.  I am starting to get into
> modifying our old programs and converting them to ile and making the output
> web enabled.  I need to send a the print file that the program generates out
> to the web server on user request.  The user will enter a customer number
> and I will build the spool file then copy it to a PF and read the file and
> write it out using the web api's and place html around it.  This would be
> much faster than rewriting the program.  I looked at the printer file
> infields but their does not seem to be the correct information to do a
> cpysplf.  Is their another way to do this.
> 
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Probably you have diferent CPI's in your spool file or special chrs.
You can try to use the spool handling API's, but may be you can
transform the printer file you use into a display file, which is not to
complicate, and add the HTML keyword to the DDS of the resulting DSPF,
then change your programs only to write to the new DSPF.

J. Wechsler
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