We had a similar problem in that many blank pages were being printed due to
terminal sequences being output to a stdlist file. Since we needed to read
the job output for error checking, I decided to strip away the ESC. Wrote a
little Pascal program which would read the spoolfile and strip away the ESC
and the accompaning characters which go with it. I have not dealt with
printer codes, but I believe they are similar to terminal ESC sequences in
that they start with ESC and most often end with a Capital letter. There
were some exceptions with the terminal sequences and were basically hard
coded to look for those exceptions.
Start writing the program and as you see codes coming through add the logic
to catch it. And there you are.

James

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 1998 9:31 PM
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> Subject: Re: Spool file
>
>
> I tried that but I still got the "0" and escape code for the printer like
> esc"h16.7" things. I used Reflection to transfer the file in
> ASCII mode. Is
> there another way to do this? Please help!
>
> Brenda
>
> Forrest Smith ¼¶¼g©ó¤å³¹ ...
> >I believe you can just copy the spoolfile to a file.  Then transfer it to
> >your PC using Refelctions or Minisoft.  The syntax would be as follows:
> >(COPY O123.OUT.HPSPOOL, ASCIIFIL.GROUP.ACCT)  I do this all the
> time and it
> >works just fine.
> >
> >Forrest.
> >
>