Hi John.

Thanks for your message.  I have tried using TEXT and KEEP, and seem to be
getting closer.

I called TEXT on my spool file, and then tried the following eight
variations of the KEEP command:

   O> keep bt1;rec=auto
   O> keep bt2;rec=auto;nocctl

   O> keep bt3;rec=auto;expand
   O> keep bt4;rec=auto;expand;nocctl

   O> keep bt5;rec=auto,,,binary
   O> keep bt6;rec=auto,,,binary;nocctl

   O> keep bt7;rec=auto,,,binary;expand
   O> keep bt8;rec=auto,,,binary;expand;nocctl

I believe I am getting closer-- what I have found is that with all these
varients, if I FTP the file in ASCII mode, I get much better PCL.  It now
prints properly, except for one problem: and extra formfeeds are inserted,
causing the print output from a single page to get divided over two pages.
(This happens for every page in the job.)   Very strange.  I am digging
around some more, but thought I would check to see if you or anyone else
reading this list/group had any thoughts.

thanks again for your help.

--bill

PS-- the different versions of this keep command create output files with
slightly different sizes-- but I am not detecting any difference in the
actual printed output.  Also-- they all behave in the same way, in that
FTPing them in binary mode corrupts them, FTPing them in ascii mode give me
a print file which is almost perfect, save for the problem described above.







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