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Subject: Printing - make narrow a wide spooled file?
From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:51:52 -0600
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I have spooled files coming out of a legacy job that are 132 characters
wide at 12 CPI == 11 in.

There's really only 85 characters of data on each row.

Is there any simple way to narrow the spooled file to 102 characters at 12
CPI == 8.5 in.?

I tried copying the spooled file to a database file and then reprinting but
it loses the print formatting such as page breaks which were produced in
the original process.

Follow-Ups:

Re: Printing - make narrow a wide spooled file? , Buck Calabro
RE: Printing - make narrow a wide spooled file? , Justin Taylor
Re: Printing - make narrow a wide spooled file? , Marc Rauzier

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