Re: auto printer to file

Jerry

As a bit of a left field approach you might consider using a remote
outqueue coupled with an LPR daemon on the receiving PC to "print" to the
PC. When you set up the LPR Printer on the PC you can specify *FILE as the
ouput device.

I investigated this once and got as far proving that the spool files
arrived as I generated them although I still had some work to do to get the
file free of control codes and readable (I only spent a couple of hours on
this aspect of the project)

You will need the LPR utility for NT - I think its part of the unix for NT
utilities. Theres also commercial software to do this, although I never got
as far as trying this.

Hope this helps

Is there an easy way to have an AS400 outq "print" to a file on a PC with no
operator intervention required (ie:  like a cpysplf with *FCFC) and, it is
xmas, have NO control codes?

Jerry


Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Network and Connectivity Specialist -- Mac's, LAN's, PC's, and iSeries
Representing Synapse, Nlynx, Perle, CLI, Intermate and Others .....
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