Can I extend this thread a little ? 

From Ken's reply it would appear that when we leave our venerable HP3000 with its integrated spoolfile management subsystem,  the responsiblity for controlling the printers is transferred to the application.  Arrgh !

Has anyone any experience of unix or NT clones of the HP3K spooler? (plugs welcome !).

>>> Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]> 07/06/02 17:58:14 >>>
Esc E

What HP recommends in general is that you do this before your job:
 Esc %-12345X   Esc E
and this after your job:
Esc E  Esc %-12345X
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Osborne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:29 AM
Subject: [HP3000-L] HP3000 Spooler


> Hello All,
>
> I'm trying to figure out what the HP Spooler does to our reports before
they
> are sent to the printer.
>
> In our Cobol programs, we open a spool file with some options on the end
> ",UT,,LP(CCTL)", write a bunch of stuff in there, and close the file. Once
> the file is closed, it automatically goes to the printer. Prints out
great.
>
> Now when I port the program to Linux, I removed the options from the file
> name. When I print out the document, it writes the file to disk. The file
> looks good, contains the proper escapes & everything. When I send the file
to
> the printer, the printer processes the job for about 3 seconds and does
> nothing. Does the 3000 append anything to get the job to actually print?
>
> To insure that the Linux box is sending files "as is" to the printer, I
sent a
> sample PCL file created by a Windows Print driver to the printer. It
printed
> perfectly.
>
> There seems to be something missing.
>
> -Pete
>
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