RE: How do I create an overlay?

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

What are you doing to create the 'pcfilename'?  Is it in proper AFP
format?

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> Subject: How do I create an overlay?
>
> I have a Word2000 form that I'm trying to use as an overlay on our 400
> (unsuccessfully). Searching thru the archives I came across the
following:
>
> CRTPF FILE(library/file) RCDLEN(8201) LVLCHK(*NO)
> CPYFRMPCD FROMFLR(folder) TOFILE(library/file) FROMDOC(pcfilename)
> TRNTBL(*NONE) TRNFMT(*NOTEXT)
> CRTOVL OVL(lib/overlay) FILE(library/file) MBR(member)
>
> When I do the CRTOVL command, I get the following error on the 400:
>
> File DOC8130 in WEBTSTSRX not valid for creating a *OVL
>
> Expanded help gives the following:
>    2 - The structured field identifier in the incoming data for the
> printer
>  resource is not correct or is not supported. The error was detected
while
>  processing record 1, byte number 0. The structured field which is not
>  correct may be caused by a length that is not correct on the previous
>  structure field. The structured field which was being processed at
the
> time is 'D0CF11E0A1B1'X.
>
> What am I doing wrong or leaving out?  How _should_ I be creating an
> overlay?
>
> Tom Hightower