Tony wrote:

> You can also use NBSPOOL to create a local archive file (i.e. to disk).

Even if you don't own NBSPOOL this sounds like a handy idea.

You could use LISTSPF @;DETAIL with an appropriate ;SELEQ=[...]
expression to capture a list of files to be archived, keep the
list on disc for lookup/search purposes and generate an indirect
file for store-to-disc of the respective files...

  :LISTSPF @ ;DETAIL ;SELEQ=[ ... ] > spflist

  :/bin/awk &
  :  "'$0~/^#O/ {print substr($1,2) "".OUT.HPSPOOL""}'" &
  :  < spflist > indfile

The SPFLIST file(s) could be archived by !hpyyyymmdd for example,
in a group or directory for easy lookup access by /bin/grep or
your favourite file-search utility. The INDFILE could be used for
STORE;PURGE and -if enough disc space is available- keeping some
amount of spoolfile archive online with store-to-disc.

Just a thought ;-)

Lars.

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