Re: Checking if a spool file exists

On 03/19/99 12:20:27 PM wawrzaszek wrote:

>Okay this should be real simple,  I need to check if a spool file was
>created from a program, if it was I want to send it to this overlay 
software
>we have for printing.  The problem occurs when no spool file exists, the
>software bombs out.  We do not have the source to put a monmsg in their
>software, so I need to check before I send it there.  Is there a way to
>check for a spoolfile?

If you have the "creating" program, you can set a return 
code/switch/LDA/whatever to show that the program did it's processing (and 
created a splf.)  If you can't get that, try RTVSPLFA and a MONMSG.  If it 
fails, no splf...

Buck Calabro
Billing Concepts Inc (formerly CommSoft), Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
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