Is it possible to create a print queue that prints directly to a text file? Seems dumb since I'm printing it from a file already. But I'm trying to send all our system line printer jobs to a text file for logging purposes. Thanks

I don't get it..... You have a file and want to print it to another file.......what are you trying to do ? What info do you need to log ? the information in the file or just that someone have sent a printjob ? Don't get me wrong..... I used to work in the VMS-support-team at Digital/Compaq/HP and one of my special skills is complex printproblems. Tell me more details......

Just stumbled over ... whatever the reason and purpose of saving a print file may be, one possibility is to use the EXECSYMB symbiont for the queue. EXECSYMB is a symbiont which executes a given DCL procedure for each file submitted. This DCL procedure can do anything desired with the file, in Your case copy it to a save area, log statistics to a database, and finally even submit the file to a destination printer queue. EXECSYMB is on the OpenVMS freeware CDs or in the freeware archive on http://www.process.com/openvms .