Had a co-worker that ran into a little snag printing the contents of a
file, and it was kind of amusing once he figured it out.  He shared it
with me, and I thought it worth repeating.  We do a listf to verify the
file, and then try to print it, the file won't print, so we fcopy the
file and guess what's in the file?

LISTF TESTFILE,2

ACCOUNT=  DEVRNS      GROUP=  SHAHAN  

FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
                  SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX

TESTFILE           80B  FA           3          3   3       16  1  1

*****************************************

:PRINT TESTFILE

The PRINT command failed. (CIERR 9080)
NONEXISTENT PERMANENT FILE  (FSERR 52)

*****************************************

FCOPY FROM=TESTFILE;TO=;CHAR;HEX
HP31900A.05.04 FILE COPIER (C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1999

TESTFILE RECORD 0 (%0, #0)

0000: 5468 6520 5052 494E 5420 636F 6D6D 616E The PRINT comman
0008: 6420 6661 696C 6564 2E20 2843 4945 5252 d failed. (CIERR
0010: 2039 3038 3029 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020  9080)
0018: SAME: TO 0028-1

TESTFILE RECORD 1 (%1, #1)

0000: 4E4F 4E45 5849 5354 454E 5420 5045 524D NONEXISTENT PERM
0008: 414E 454E 5420 4649 4C45 2020 2846 5345 ANENT FILE  (FSE
0010: 5252 2035 3229 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 RR 52)
0018: SAME: TO 0028-1

TESTFILE RECORD 2 (%2, #2)

0000: 3A20 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 :
0008: SAME: TO 0028-1
EOF FOUND IN FROMFILE AFTER RECORD 2

3 RECORDS PROCESSED *** 0 ERRORS


END OF SUBSYSTEM


Ray Shahan 
Life is not a journey to the grave with the 
intention of arriving safely in a pretty and 
well preserved body, but rather to skid in 
broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, 
and loudly proclaiming: 
-- WOW!!! What a Ride



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