Shawn,

Do a SPOOLF with the seleq syntax to identify the spool file number and
send this to a file. Then read the line out of the file and parse the
spool file number. Then using the spool file name, fully qualified, use
the DEV= and PRINT in another spoolf command.

John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co
Cleveland Ohio

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Gordon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 10:15 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] copying spool files
>
>
> In a job I want to create a report and then copy it to
> another printer so
> that a copy prints on two different prints.  This seems
> simple, but so far
> has proved incredibly difficult to do.  There doesn't seem to
> be a variable
> that contains that last spool id that I created, and the
> SPOOLF command
> won't do a PRINT using seleq syntax to identify the report by
> it's other
> characteristics.
>
> I don't have a third party product to use either other than MPEX.
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thanks,
> shawn
>