RE: Trimming off pages to print

["Bale, Dan" <Dan.Bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Boy, the list sure is slow today.  The specifics for this escape me at
the moment, but from what I recall:

If you're printing to an IP-addressed printer (and who doesn't these
days?), some of the print file attributes, notably PAGERANGE, do not
work.  I thought I had heard that IBM fixed this or provided a PTF for
this in later releases, but since I'm stuck at V3R2 for the moment, it
doesn't solve my problem.

I have been using a homegrown utility that was cobbled together from
other published code.  It works well, it involves copying the spool
file, but it keeps all the attributes of the original file.  Although,
now I'm somewhat skeptical since there was a thread yesterday about the
"print text" that prints at the bottom of each page; we never use
PRTTXT, so I've never had a chance to test it.

If you're still interested, let me know and I'll pass the code on to
you.

Also, Brad Stone's shareware utility SPLTOOL (sp?) handles this issue
and many others.  It's a beautiful piece of work and I recommend you
check it out at www.bvstools.com.  BTW, Brad started the thread on the
PRTTXT problem.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wills, Mike N. (TC) [SMTP:MNWills@taylorcorp.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:03 PM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      Trimming off pages to print
>
> When I do a OVRPRTF PRTF PAGERANGE(2 *END), what would cause the first
> page
> to still print? By default our software prints out a header page, and
> we
> would like to remove it for one of the reports.
>
> Mike
>