Re: Grabbing wrong spool file

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon, you'd know.  I thought SPOOLED was an acronym? 
 
 
 
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2003 9:14:42 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Grabbing wrong spool file
 
Chuck wrote:
 
>At 03/04/2003 02:04 PM +0000, you wrote:
>>It is SPOOLED file (as in a file which has been spooled) not SPOOL file. I
>>wish you people (and the various trade rags) would get that correct.
>
>That would go for IBM's manuals too, right? A quick search reveals that 
>they tend to use the terms interchangeably, although "spooled" is more 
>prevalent.
 
I think this is directed at me since I recognise the original quote. The
manuals 
are written by technical writers with varying levels of competence. Some of
them 
also make the same stupid mistake. The final arbiter should be the OS/400 
commands which show:
 
CMDSPLF Spooled File Commands 
 
Select one of the following: 
 
Commands 
1. Change Spooled File Attributes CHGSPLFA 
2. Copy Spooled File CPYSPLF 
3. Delete Spooled File DLTSPLF 
4. Display Spooled File DSPSPLF 
5. Hold Spooled File HLDSPLF 
6. Release Spooled File RLSSPLF 
7. Send Network Spooled File SNDNETSPLF 
8. Send TCP/IP Spooled File SNDTCPSPLF 
9. Work with Printing Status WRKPRTSTS 
10. Work with Spooled Files WRKSPLF 
11. Work with Spooled File Attr WRKSPLFA 
 
Now that you are aware of the correct wording please see that your
particular 
'trade rag' gets it right in future.
 
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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