If this is a spooled printer, start spooling from the beginning, then
SUSPENDSPOOL.   Then RESUMESPOOL   XX;FORWARD 19990 PAGES.  You can use the
SPOOLER command rather than the older commands.  Use MPE help to look these
up.   I've done this, but not on such a big spoolfile.

Tom Genute
Phone:  (973) 716-8150
Pager:  (973) 308-4780


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Timothy Hoefner [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   Tuesday, April 11, 2000 12:48 PM
                To:     [log in to unmask]
                Subject:        Spoolfile question.

                I know that what I ask can be done but I haven't found the
answer yet.  We have a spoolfile that is approx. 30,000 lines. The printer
jammed at 20,000 lines and we don't want to send it all over again.   We
need to cut out lines 5/20,000 (1/5 contain esc. sequences to toggle macro's
on our Xerox printer so they need to stay with the new spoolfile).

                We have tried ESPUL which has many commands but none seem to
be what we want.  We have also tried editing the OUT.HPSPOOL file but it
didn't seem to work properly - record length is chopped off to 255
characters.

                Thanks a bunch in advance!

                Tim Hoefner
                Senior Programmer/Analyst
                El Paso Community College
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                (915) 831-6144