Don't know if this answers your question - we have a PC tool called Monarch (Datawatch Corp, MA). After you have transferred a spoolfile (or disc file that looks like a report), you can extract what you need and create different PC type files (i.e. .WK1, .DBF). The nice thing about it - you create a 'model' which can be reused for other reports of the same makeup, and you can create a 'project' which can be assigned to a desktop icon thereby automating your report conversion, even starting the target application.

It's strictly a PC tool. Datawatch claims Monarch can "Transform any report into live data on your PC!"  So far, I'd agree.


Shirley Maclaughlin, Crossley Carpet Mills, Nova Scotia

-----Original Message-----
From:   Tracy Shepherd [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Thursday, March 20, 1997 11:13 AM
Subject:        Downloading Options

From:   NAME: Shepherd, Tracy A.
        FUNC: ADMINISTRATION <SHEPHERD@A1@CORP>
To:     NAME: 3000-l message server <smtp%"[log in to unmask]"@mrgate>

I have 937lx connected to LAN in a small division of a large company. The large
company has several Digital/VMS and NT machine on a WAN. My LAN is not
connected to WAN for varies reasons. I have written applications that take data
from the 3000 to WAN. To achieve this I have a PC connected to the 3000
serially, and the PC is also connected to WAN thur ethernet card. I used couple
third party products - Reflection 1, SheetMat, StarJet.

My questions are as follows:

1)Creating a PC application file as describe above is no problem, but how about
taking spoolfile generated on the 3000 transferring it to WAN drive to be
printed on PC printer as it would look on the 3000?

2)SheetMat allows you to format data to be used by PC application, but just
data. Is there an application that take formatted reports from 3000 to PC
application, so that when you open the file on the PC all the data and the
formatting is intact?

I Thank everyone that responds in Advance.

Tracy Shepherd
Phone (419) 425-6127
Fax   (419) 424-4998
e-mail [log in to unmask]