RE: Viewing PCL Reports

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug,

I haven't been following this thread but I'll poke my nose in anyway.

It isn't hard to get the ASCII PCL Data stream out of the *USERASCII spool file.
System API QSPGETSP is the ticket you need.

Of course, displaying PCL on a green screen will be "interesting" to say the
least.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Doug Hart
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 6:10 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Viewing PCL Reports
> 
> Thanks for the tip.  I had thought of a PC tool like Quick View Plus but the
> problem becomes more difficult.  A PCL file in an Outq cannot be displayed,
> copied, or sent.  I even tried using CA's iSeries Navigator to drag & drop it
> to my Windows desktop.  But get the same issues.  Since I can't export it, PC
> viewers are out.  The file type of *USERASCII (ASCII data stream) is the
> problem.
> 
> Again thanks for the idea.
> 
> ---
> Doug Hart
> 
> 
> 
> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Maybe Swiftview will help  www.swiftview.com.  I used their package a
> > while ago at a previous job and I liekd it.  I see now that they have
> > an entire suite.
> >
> > Tom D.
> >
> >>
> >  |  As a front end to our faxing we use the package FormSprint
> >  |  which converts *SCS
> >  |  spool files to PCL format.  The problem is this format
> >  |  can't be displayed when
> >  |  working with the outq. I also tried the CA viewer but again
> >  |  it can't display
> >  |  the text/image correctly.
> >  |
> >  |  Does anyone have a trick that supports the "viewing" of PCL
> >  |  format reports?
> >  |
> >  |  ---
> >  |  Doug Hart
> >  |
> >  |
> >
> 
> 
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