Re: QSYSPRT Print 1 Page and feed

Thanks for your patience. It's hard to test while you're 800 miles from the
printer and have to holler for someone to watch the darn thing, but you've
given me enough to go on that I'm confident to schedule a test!

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 6:07 PM, CRPence <crpbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 08-Jun-2018 12:22 -0500, Jack Woehr wrote:

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Jack Woehr wrote:

In the midst of a CL which is calling RPG programs that do
printing, I want to print 1 page to QSYSPRT and make sure it feeds
the page. What's the easiest way to print a mostly-blank page with
a short message like "SEPARATE HERE!!!" and feed the page?

Typically, each program that opens and writes to the printer file will
effect a new page implicitly, with the close of the device file; i.e. the
prior program would have done the same, so despite the prior program
possibly only having written a single line of text, the next printout would
[also] start on a new page, after the printer moves/feeds the page to
process the next form/printout. A shared open data path for the device
file would require the sharing programs to ensure the progressing to the
new page; e.g. by writing the proper forms control character or line
positioning request.

I guess that an adjunct question is this: If I CPYF to *PRINT is it

guaranteed to occupy an entire page?

The Copy File (CPYF) request, with TOFILE(*PRINT) specified, will [as
best I recall] effect the full open and full close of the device file
QSYSPRT, irrespective any attempt to use a shared open; i.e. an implicit
form feed is the effect, such that the start of the next printout will
begin on the specified start line of the next page. So in effect, Yes;
though possibly only fifteen lines taken on the page by the TOFILE(*PRINT)
spooled output, the next called RPG program would start the next printout
on a new page.

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Regards, Chuck


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