RE: Printer Overflow and BIF's

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Sneddon wrote:

>It works (of course) by using an 
>OFLIND(*IN55) and then watching 
>for *in55.  I was not able to 
>get it to work by using the %error 
>method and it won't let you specify 
>something like OFIND(%ERROR)...

Hi Jim!
I would advise against ever using the error indicator to condition for
overflow in printer files.
1) Other things cause errors besides overflow
2) It is expensive to have the system throw a run-time error

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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