Holger Wiemann ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

: does anyone know how I can print out specific pages from an
: existing spoolfile on MPE/iX 4.0 (or higher)?

You can't print out specific pages from that spool file using MPE
(third-party products may support this), but if it's a fairly simple
spool file and you know where the page boundaries are, you can extract
the desired pages into a new spool file and print that one.

But there's a catch.  SPIFF, the tool you would use to do this, is
available starting only with Release 5.0.  If you have access to a
5.0 system, and can move the spool files there, you can use the
COPY and/or APPEND commands in SPIFF.

The CSL program (actually command file) SPOOKNM, which can be used
on pre-5.0 systems, does not support the COPY and APPEND commands.

Is there environment file information at the beginning of your
spool file?  If so, you have to extract that (or duplicate it) in
the new spool file as well.

So the short answer is:  there's no tool which will allow you to
say "print pages 4, 6-8, 14, 20".  Starting with Release 5.0, SPIFF
allows you to gather specific records from one or more existing spool
files to a new spool file, then print that new spool file.  But you
must find the records you want by browsing the spool file (which
SPIFF also lets you do).

Hope that helps.

-Larry "MPE/iX Spoolers 'R' Us" Byler-