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Subject: Print queue send to text file

Original Message

Name: jay2068
Date: December 17, 2007 at 09:15:34 Pacific
Subject: Print queue send to text file
OS: vms 7.2
CPU/Ram: 1024MB
Model/Manufacturer: DS25

Comment:

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

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Response Number 1

Name: HakZan
Date: December 17, 2007 at 13:17:38 Pacific
Subject: Print queue send to text file

Reply: (edit)

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......

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Response Number 2

Name: Joseph.Huber
Date: January 21, 2008 at 04:35:43 Pacific
Subject: Print queue send to text file

Reply: (edit)

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 .

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