Re: email a spool file in a MS Word format(*.doc)

Frank,

I do not think that is easily done: giving the file a doc extension does not 
make it a Word doc-file. And to make one you need documentation for the extra 
data (that Word understands, e.g. printer information) in the spool file (I 
think MicroSoft may give you that voluntarily now).

You may try to create an RTF-file, but to do that you have to add some extra 
text in the printerfile to make it RTF. Some years ago Midrange Computing 
published a tool to create an RTF-file from a spool file. (see mcpressonline if 
the article and the code is available).

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler

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On 8-5-03 at 14:20 fkany@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>I created an overlay for a printer file and it prints out ok and it faxes
>ok.  Now I'd like to attach the same printer file to an email and send it
>to myself.  When I receive the email with the attached file, I'd like it to be 
>in MS Word
>format.  I can send emails to myself from the iSeries just fine using
>SNDDST but I don't how to attach a Word doc.  Would someone help me out with 
>this?  Thanks.