I wrote a cammand file that does just this... We have 31 groups, one for
each day of the month, that we copy the spoolfiles into. We can then
'restore' the spoolfile or spoolfiles by using this command file. It
will allow you to select by spoolid#, job number, filedes, device
number, owner, or all.. If any one is interested, send me an e-mail. It
consists of two command files and I will e-mail them back to you...

Rick Clark
Senior Analyst
WW&R

Barry Lake wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Barry Lake                                 [log in to unmask]
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