At 6:58 PM +0000 9/22/99, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>   As I'm sure we all know, the HPIB interface is going away in a future
>release
>of MPE, although I can't remember when.  My problem is that currently we
>backup
>our spoolfiles to our 7978 tapedrive before lowering the fence to print our
>output from our nightly schedule.  We do this just in case a printer fails,
>ribbon jams/breaks, or...?  What I've attempted doing is copying the
>spoolfiles
>to another group before lowering the fence to print, which works fine, but I
>can't figure out how to copy them back to the spool to reprint if we do have a
>problem. Any help would be appreciated.

You can't simply copy them back to the OUT.HPSPOOL group -- they won't be
tied into the spooler that way. What you need to do is use the ;PRINT
option of the SPOOLF command.

For expample, if you have copied O1234.OUT.HPSPOOL to a local file called
O1234.MYGRP.MYACCT, then to get the report spooled again you can do

   :SPOOLF O1234.MYGRP.MYACCT;PRINT

and it will once again be spooled as before.


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