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Tom, Sometimes you get it extremely right...:-) That about covers all the bases, AFAIK. (First base being good problem definition.) jt > -----Original Message----- > From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com > [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of thomas@inorbit.com > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:24 PM > To: midrange-l@midrange.com > Subject: Re: CPYSPLF and retain format > > > 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 > > -- > 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 > > > ___________________________________________________ > The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe > Better! Faster! More Powerful! > 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! > http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) > mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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