Re: AFPDS to SCS conversion or ASCII

Interesting. An AFPDS spool file has print data stream (not SCS) and 
references to AFP resources. A couple of thoughts come to mind:

1. Our Report.Web/400 product (http://www.patownsend.com) can send the 
print data stream and AFP resources to NSA's Report.Web product 
(http://www.nsainc.com) for web publishing as PDF files. This product also 
supports COLD archival.

2. Or, if you just want to get the resources backed up you could use 
Report.Web/400 to send the AFP files to an NT server and let a standard 
COLD archival system take over. I suspect, though, that what you really 
want is to have the AFP in a format that can be reprinted.

There may also be COLD vendors to can do this? You might check out the 
News/400 product listing at http://www.news400.com.

Patrick


At 02:31 PM 6/6/2000 -0500, Salter, James wrote:
>I am working on trying to get some new documents that use overlays (and
>therefore
>require AFPDS) onto our cold storage system.
>
>If there were a way to convert it to a SCS printer device type from AFPDS,
>my problem
>would be solved, because I could then do a CPYTOPCD command.  This however
>is not allowed
>for AFPDS spool files.
>
>Otherwise, if someone knew the steps to send from an AFPDS spool file to a
>file to be
>loaded to my cold storage system, I would appreciate it.
>
>I have looked at the V4R4 softcopy book at the printer device programming
>section under
>the host print transform section, yet I cannot seem to figure out what steps
>are required.
>
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