RE: CPYSPLF to Database File surprise

[Wynn Osborne <wynn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:19 PM 4/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Eventually we found it *in* a database file with the same name as the
>spool

Redirection I do it's called if my memory serves me.

We have a home grown spool file manager that, prior to us converting it to
use API's, we created a PF/LF combination that allowed us to do a WRKOUTQ
*PRINT with the output redirected to the database file instead of the printer.

This saved all the hastle of having to do a CPYSPLF to a database file,
then call an rpg program to read the database file, which then resulted in
one having the spool file attributes of all files in an outq.  WHAT A
MOUTHFUL to get to the point eh?

Anyway, all that work went up in smoke when the API's were released.

So much for redirection.

Wynn
"You people with the cheese!"--Jackie Chiles, Attorney

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