Colin Freas wrote in article ... >I restored a group of reports from a backup tape that had been deleted off >of the spool erroneously. > >When I restored them, I couldn't restore them directly to ><file>.out.hpspool, so I put them into my home group and account. I used >PRINT to get them out to the spool, but when I actually printed them, they >had lost some formatting on the way, specifically page breaks. > >My questions then are basically: is any file in out.hpspool automatically >on the spooler? If so, how do I copy files to it? If not, how can I >place an arbitrary file directly onto the spool? > >Advice appreciated in advance. Use this command sequence to restore spool files: file t;dev=tape restore *t; O0123.out.hpspool Don't use olddate or any other restore options. MPE will assign a new OFID to the file that you restored.