I download spoolfiles to my PC all the time.  The format is well known and
if you just get rid of the first record and then the five bytes of every
line, you will have clean data to work with.  

Denys



-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Tony Tibbenham
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:55 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Hp3000 917 rx MPE 6 device / printing confusion

Hi Donna,

We do read lp spoolfiles into Excel occasionally with fair results ( not
pretty but effective ).  

Regarding our printers:
Printronix 500Q x 2 ( special paperwork, cannot be re-purposed )
HP 2934A  x 1 ( defective print head - goes through the motions but
prints nothing :-( )
HP2600N x lots 
HP5000C x 1
HP5500 x 1
Panasonic DP-C 264 x 3

ldev 228 was pointing to an HP 2600N colour printer. I have just done - 
spooler lp2;stop
abortio 228 
quad npconfig.pub.sys
changed the IP for device 228 to the panasonic ( just in case, it is the
printer they really want to use )
spooler lp2;start 
Stuck at 
:spooler lp2;show

LDEV  DEV       SPSTATE   QSTATE  OWNERSHIP    SPOOLID    JOB STEP

 228  00000228  ACTIVE    OPENED  OUT SPOOLER  #O631199   HDR, WAIT FOR
EOD

We have no old jetdirect boxes around.  

Regards


Tony

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