Re: Printing - make narrow a wide spooled file?

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The original spooled file is generated in legacy code I don't want to
touch. Copying the spoolfile afterwards as shown above works, and feels
safe :) Thanks, Justin.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Did you specify CTLCHAR() when doing the copy?
> CPYSPLF FILE() CTLCHAR(*FCFC)
> OVRPRTF FILE() CTLCHAR(*FCFC)
>
>
> You might be able to do an OVRPRTF before the spooled file is generated.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Woehr [mailto:jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 9:52 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Printing - make narrow a wide spooled file?
>
> 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.
>
>
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