The answer is YES. Just as you can read a $STDLIST from your session. Try
placing a print command against the stdlist file in OUT.HPSPOOL. You sould
be able to read right up to your print command.

I have used some methods of recording stdlists to flat files this way.

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From: markb
To: HP3000-L
Subject: Can a job read its own open $STDLIST spo
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 1998 10:07AM

I'm thinking about modifying some of my production batch jobs to send me
e-mail
with Sendmail/iX instead of printing on dead trees.

Is it possible using MPE FOS functionality for a batch job to read its own
open $STDLIST spoolfile?  I'd like to add a step to the end of these batch
jobs that will mail me the accumulated $STDLIST contents and then possibly
do a :SET STDLIST=DELETE.  Most of my production output consists solely of
$STDLISTs.

We have Quest Software's NBSPOOL here, and I could probably hack together
something using that, but I was hoping for a portable FOS-only solution.....
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