My guess would be, since the extra characters are in front of each record,
that they are the length, cctl and pen position values that precede each
spoolfile record.

Regards
Paul Christidis
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Subject: Re: A strange one.........
Author:  Mike Hornsby <[log in to unmask]> at CCGATE
Date:    04/17/97 06:09 AM


The characters may be coming from a default environment file for the
printer. When I send
output to an http server I bypass the spooler with the following JCL:


!JOB jobhttp,MANAGER.ACCT
:SETVAR PRE,"PRE"
:SETVAR LT, "<"
:SETVAR GT, ">"
:PURGE HTTPFILE
:BUILD HTTPFILE;REC=-132,,F,ASCII;DISC=100000
:FILE PRINTER=HTTPFILE,OLD;DEV=DISC;ACC=APPEND
:ECHO !!!LT!PRE!!!GT >*PRINTER
:ECHO !hpdatef >*PRINTER
:RUN RPTXYZ
:LISTF HTTPFILE,2
!ftp.arpa.sys
open 1.0.1.4
user HP3000JOBS
PASS3K
cd d:\SERVER\PUBLIC\WWW\HTML\ROOT
del XYZRPT.htm
put HTTPFILE XYZRPT.htm
quit
!EOJ

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> From: Edie Houston <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:      A strange one.........
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> I hope someone out there has some experience with this....
>
> We have nightly reports that run on our HP3000/949 (using IX5.5).  These
> are a mixture
> of CA/Manman canned reports and Powerhouse Quiz.  We have been making
them
> available to users through the Maui Online Reporting System.  We want to
> port them (or I should say some of them) to our Intranet which is housed
on
> an NT box (NT4.0). The reports will be viewed using (the dreaded) IE3.0.
>
> I am transferring the files from the HP to NT via FTP in ASCII mode.  The
> transfer happens fine.  I can access the files via the network and read
> them just fine.  When we try to access them using IE3.0 we get an error
> message "IE is unable to open this file".  We thought that it was a
> security issue but that does not prove to be the case.  There is
"garbage"
> (about 10 characters) in front of each line of the file so IE doesn't
> recognize it as a text file.  This garbage is not visible in Edit3000,
nor
> is it visible in Notepad (or any other text editor) on the local PC, it
is
> only visible in Notepad on the NT Server.  I have tried transferring the
> report as a spoolfile and as a disc file.  I have tried transferring as
> type ASCII and type binary.  I have also tried transferring as "nocctl".
> Depending on which way I transfer I either end up with a file that
includes
> "garbage" or a file that is one long continuous line of characters.  In
> either case the file isn't usable by the end user.
> The only thing I haven't tried is "buildparms" because I am advised NT
> doesn't accept them.  I am only just starting to learn NT so I accept
this
> for now.
>
> Has anyone out there had any experience with this type of transfer?  How
> have you overcome the problems?  My supervisor insists there must be a
way
> to do it, and I am
> inclined to agree.