Re: CPYSPLF and retain format

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Mike:

On Sat, 17 November 2001, "Condon, Mike" wrote:

> I want to copy a spool file to a physical file, but have it end up in the
> physical file
> in the format it would appear as if it were printed. Is there a (hopefully
> easy) way to do this?

Are you asking about placing a specific spoolfile into a PF? or _any_ spoolfile 
into a PF? And exactly how close would you want _any_ spoolfile to appear? 
E.g., if an element is bolded in the spoolfile, would it be bolded in the PF? 
Underlined, etc? If the page length was 88 lines and there were only 10 printed 
lines on the page, would you want 78 blank records?

Are you familiar with using CPYSPLF with the *FCFC option? In general, once 
you've got the spoolfile into an intermediate PF with *FCFC, you can read that 
PF and place the records into your final PF with blank lines inserted according 
to the supplied control characters with a pretty simple RPG. Bold, underline, 
etc., wouldn't be so easy though _possible_ if you could guarantee viewing via 
5250 I suppose.

What's the objective for this? Viewing instead of printing? archiving? transfer 
to other systems?

Tom Liotta

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Tom Liotta
The PowerTech Group, Inc.
19426 68th Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032
Phone  253-872-7788
Fax  253-872-7904
http://www.400Security.com


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