"Robert Mills" wrote: > I'm looking for a file viewer that will let me look at the FULL contents of a spoolfile in Hex and Ascii. > Please DON'T suggest that I use :FCOPY (with ;CHAR;HEX options) as it does not give you the whole story. I.E. it hides the control code data from you. The MR;NOBUF technique that Paul suggested in another response gives you the ultimate down-and-dirty display, but there's a simpler approach that might give you everything you're looking for. Check out the PRINTSPF utility (documented in the Native Mode Spooler Reference Manual). It'll give you a nicely formatted display of the special spool file records that you don't normally see. However, if you want to see the hex codes for non-printing characters in the actual data you are sending to the printer, PRINTSPF won't show that to you. Walter * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *