RE: cpsplf *fcfc

Under what context was the statement "*fcfc is not valid for externally
described printer files" made?  

If I'm understanding your post correctly, you want your HTML output to have
the appropriate tags for underlining just like they appear in the printed
output?  WYSIWYG?  If this is what you're trying to do, you've got a LOT of
work ahead of you.  It's not just a simple matter of doing a CPYSPLF to a
database file to a PC file with inserted HTML tags.  You will definately
need the *FCFC output to insert the appropriate HTML tags for underlining
and boldfacing.

Of course, you could save yourself a lot of time & aggravation and get an
instant solution in Brad Stone's SPLTOOL product.

hth,
- Dan Bale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Fritz [SMTP:JFritz@sharperimage.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 12:33 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange. com (E-mail)
> Subject:      cpsplf *fcfc
> 
> I'm working on a simple copy spool file to HTML project based on some code
> from News400 a couple of years ago where you copy the spool file to a data
> base file and then insert HTML tags in the final product.  
> 
> My externally described print file inexperience is showing. I created a
> simple printer file with five character fields in one record format.  Each
> field has the underline attribute.  I have a test program that writes to
> this record format ten times using a nested loop to fill up the fields.
> When I do a cpysplf with no control characters, I get a ten record data
> base
> file.  When I do cpysplf *fcfc or *prtctl I get a 50 record data base file
> with 4 blank fields and one field populated in each record.  I know that
> this doesn't happen with overprinting done with O specs where you overlay
> one except record on another.  Is this just the way it works?  
> 
Ok, I read the manual and discovered that *fcfc is "not valid for externally
described printer files."  Is there a workaround?

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