Roy, why do you use  Reflection to upload the spoolfiles, you can ftp them
directly in UE, it saves a step.

Denys

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Roy Brown
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:55 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Hp3000 917 rx MPE 6 device / printing confusion

In message <013401c90ebb$9ccd1910$d6674b30$@com>, donna hofmeister 
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>I wouldn't count of being able to transfer spoolfiles (using ftp or your
>emulator's file transfer process) to <a_non_mpe_computer> (eg, a pc) and
>still be able to read them.
>
>you might get lucky...but odds are they're not going to appear right.  if
>you don't care how 'pretty' they are give it a try...but it's ill advised.

I've been reading spoolfiles on PCs for yonks.

I upload them with Reflection, and open them with UltraEdit. This at 
first thinks they are binary, but I tell it they are ASCII, strip off 
the first character on each line, save the file as *.txt, and voila! a 
nice readable/processable file.

I expect I lose a bunch of line feeds, page throws and so on, but I 
generally don't want these white-space lines anyway.

I also expect there are some corner-case feeds this won't get right (0 
line feeds?)

But for job listings, compile output, program listings, and most printed 
output generally, it works just fine.


-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com 
Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.15/1649 - Release Date: 9/3/2008
7:15 AM

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *