Jeff,
 
     What a great question!  We are working on the very same problem here!
     We have a spoolfile that is created on the 3000 with a 2680
     environment file that uses a font with 165 characters instead of the
     default 132 in LP.HPENV.SYS.  Spoolmate does its thing on the
     spoolfile for two recipients of this report, here in Boston.  So far,
     so good.
 
     Now, a new recipient has been added at a remote site.  The printer
     there is a 4si off of the network.  We have had no trouble (well, a
     lot of problems that we have solved) printing reports on that printer
     if they are 132 columns.  This report for this new recipient has been
     difficult.
 
     Here's what we have done so far.
 
     We created a new environment file using Formation.
 
     In the job (test version), we added an ESPUL routine:
 
     RUN ESPUL.PUB.RAC
 
     COPY CI372R01;E=FENV165.UTILITY.LIBRARY;N=CI372F01;D=LDEV900
 
     EXIT
 
     where LDEV900 is a 4si newwork printer at our location.
 
     The reason we change the spoolfile name is so that we have a separate
     spoolfile definition in Spoolmate.
 
     This seems to work.  I say "seems" because at one point in our
     development cycle, we had extra spoolfiles printing on the 4si and are
     not certain how that happened.  We made a minor change, and that
     problem went away, but there is some disagreement here among the wise
     folk whether the change mattered.  It's worked properly two
     consecutive runs in the test environment.
 
     Barring new ideas, we'll move the job into production and print
     remotely as well.
 
     Leonard Berkowitz
     Warren, Gorham & Lamont
     617-292-8349 (Boston, that E.D.T.)
 
 
 
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Subject: Hacking spool files...
Author:  Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> at internet
Date:    05/08/96 3:54 PM
 
 
I've seen somewhere back in the HPRC tech notes a method of sticking an
environment file on a spoofle that has no existing environment, but I'd
be interested in a quickie fix for this:
 
I have some spoofles with 2680 environments on them, I want to strip the
existing environment and insert a Formation environment (actually just
copying the original data with cctl intact to a file equated ;env= will
work) but don't want to lose cctl/etc.
 
These are NRJE host output files from offsite and will be non-trivial to
have the reports re-created so we can catch them with the proper file
equations set in the NRJE forms file.
 
Please respond direct, I'll summarize back (I don't think this is a big
deal, I'm just missing something somewhere...).
 
Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>