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Native Mode Spooler Reference Manual

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.

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