Editor limitations

You can browse output spool files using any editor that supports variable-length record files. EDIT/3000 is one editor that you can use. To use EDIT/3000 to browse a spool file, you must use the command SET VARIABLE before copying the spool file into your work space. Suppose you want to browse spool file O2050.OUT.HPSPOOL. Enter:

   editor

 

   set variable

   set length=NN

   set right=NN

   t o2050.out.hpspool

NN is the record length of the longest record in the file. NN must be <=255

Now you may use any of the EDIT/3000 commands.

	NOTE: The editor should only be used to browse the spool file. The system does not let you overwrite the original spool file in OUT.HPSPOOL. You can save the spool file in text file in a group to which you have access, but the file you save is no longer a linked spool file. In fact, it is no longer a spool file.

You may not browse input spool files.