In article <[log in to unmask]>, donna garverick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>hi all!
>
>i'm wondering if it's possible to 'remove' pages from
>a spoolfile (already sitting in .out.hpspool)?  for
>strange and mysterious reasons....i've got some
>programmers that are producting huge spoolfiles...but
>they only want to print the first 100 pages.  pulling
>the file into qedit, deleting 10 kazillion lines,

I do this all the time from within qedit.
I tq the file, find the first and last line I want
printed, and then I
lq $pre $lpb firstlinenumber/lastlinenumber

I have lpb defined as one of our laser printers, and
the $pre is what keeps the carrige control correct.

Works fine.


Gordon Montgomery
Living Scriptures, Inc
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