RE: Adding a line to a spool file

["Bradley V. Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don is correct.. You will need to do an OVRPRTF command to set the
attributes of the spooled file to how you want them, otherwise it will just
use the defaults.

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Don
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 9:54 AM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Adding a line to a spool file
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> You should be able to do this with the ovrprtf prior to the cpyf...
>
> Don in DC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles St-Laurent
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 10:31 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Adding a line to a spool file
>
> Hi!
>
> I want to add a line at the beginning of an existing spool file.
> Here's the
> steps of what I've tried:
>
> 1) Create a work file with a data length = spool length + 1
> 2) CPYSPLF of my spool file to my work file with *FCFC
> 3) run a program that adds my new line at the beginning of the work file
> 4) OVRPRTF of my resulting work file to a QSYSPRT file
> 5) CPYF of my work file to QSYSPRT
>
> This works fine except for one thing: my new spool file does not have the
> same attributes that my original spool file (CPI, LPI, etc...)
>
> Is there any way to create an empty spool file with the same
> attributes that
>
> my first spool file and then add data to this spool file?
>
> I saw examples of doing that with user spaces... But is there
> anything more
> simple than using User Space to solve my problem?
>
> Charles
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