Re: Printing to a disk file?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The technique of using OVRDBF to redirect a printer file to a DB file is 
what I do sometimes, instead of CPYSPLF.

And I often redirect something like OUTPUT (for FTP) to QPRINT with 
OVRPRTF - but could just as easily do OVRDBF, for parsing the results of 
an FTP session.

Scott Klement wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> You can use an override to go from almost any type of file to almost any 
> other type of file.  For example, I frequently do the opposite of what 
> you describe, where the program's output is PRINTER, and I want a DISK 
> file, so I'll use OVRDBF to override to a disk file.  (Usually because I 
> want to read the "report" into a computer program and do something to it.)
>
> So... you can override one type of file into another.  Is that what 
> you're asking?
>
>
> Dave Boettcher wrote:
>   
> > Thanks for the answer.  It already works, Scott, I still don't know how.
> > I would have expected it needed to be called "printer" on the F spec.
> >  
> >     
>
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