I believe the environment file is prepended to your spoofle at print time,
which explains your having to mention it via ';env='. What's probably
missing are two HP carriage control directives, which you no longer get to
see when you text the file. Most likely this will work:
qe
/t o1234.out.hpspool (or just the # - qe feature)
/a 0.001
C
A
// or ^Y
/:file lp;dev=whatever;env=envfile
/lq lp @
Note that the C & A characters are in the CCTL byte which will most likely
appear as a blank in most of your file, other than a few 1's on your
headlines.
The C & A records are to override the (assumed HP 256x or similar) printer's
defaults of print-then-advance and (I think) auto-pagefeed after 60 lines.
Can't even remember which is which, but they're doc'd in the back of the old
MPE4(?) brown pocket guide; put em in and fly.
In the MPE 4 days, maybe 5 too, you'd see those two records in Spook, but
then they'd mysteriously disappear if you grabbed the file. Then along came
MPE/XL, Spook went away, and these records' visibility got worse instead of
better.
Tracy Pierce
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valeda Franklin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 12:49 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: HP3000-L Digest - 26 May 2004 to 27 May 2004 (#2004-146)
>
>
> I forgot to add--I have the automatic digest setup for daily,
> so please
> respond to me directly.
> TIA,
> Valeda
>
>
> >Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 12:21:37 -0700
> >To: HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]>
> >From: Valeda Franklin <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: HP3000-L Digest - 26 May 2004 to 27 May 2004 (#2004-146)
> >In-Reply-To:
> <[log in to unmask]
> cc.ca.us>
> >
> >I have a spool file that is setup to print on a laserjet
> printer on ldev
> 903. It was created with an environment file, so the
> laserjet PCL setups
> are in the beginning of the file. The problem is that I need
> to modify the
> contents of the file so that a number on one line is moved 44
> positions to
> the right (to keep this story short). I've tried modifying
> in QEdit and
> doing a LISTQ LP with this file equate in place:
> >
> >FILE LP;DEV=903,3,1
> >
> >which didn't work and then again with
> >
> >FILE LP;DEV=903,3,1;ENV=LJETREC.PUB
> >
> >which was better, but the vertical spacing was not right.
> >
> >It looks like Spiff cannot be used to modify contents of spool files.
> >
> >Does anyone have any suggestions for me???? BTW, we are on
> version 6.5
> operating system adn Version 5.3 of QEdit.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Valeda
> >
> >
>
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