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| Title: | *OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference |
| Notice: | Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1 |
| Moderator: | IOSG::PYE |
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| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 23 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4343 |
| Total number of notes: | 18308 |
2953.0. "Print to FILE with attachements" by KERNEL::SIMPSONR (fred) Thu Jul 01 1993 15:15
ALL-IN-1 V3.0
Hello I have a customer who reported a problem, which I can replicate here.
To reproduce simply:
Print any mail message with attachments to FILE with a print style of LN03.
Then from VMS print this file to an LN03. Some of the text has now been
lost. It will look something like:
I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M
Date: 30-Jun-1993 05:08pm GMT
From: Richard Simpson
SIMPSON $
The dollar sign represents a funny character that appears to be many
charaters upon one another. On the next page a few lines of the first
attahcment is printed with a similar funny character, and the same with
the third.
If the mail is printed directly from ALL-IN-1 it prints fine. The customer for
certain reasons needs to have this working quickly, does anyone have any ideas,
I am surprised if it is not a known problem...
Thanks in Advance,
Richard.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2953.1 | Try FREE::WPS_PLUS | TINNIE::SETHI | Ahhhh (-: an upside down smile from OZ | Fri Jul 02 1993 04:03 | 8 |
| Hi Richard,
Cross-post this note in the FREE::WPS-PLUS conference you may get a
better response from "DG" or is it "dg" and fellow WPS-PLUSers :-).
Regards,
Sunil
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| 2953.2 | The appending fails | IOSG::NEWLAND | Richard Newland, IOSG, REO2-G/L2 | Mon Jul 05 1993 20:59 | 30 |
| I can also reproduce the problem. It is not a reported problem so please
submit an SPR.
When ALL-IN-1 prints a message with attachments it separately formats the
message and each attachment, which results in multiple listing files being
created. When the Print Destination is a VMS queue a print job with
multiple files is created. When the Print Destination is FILE ALL-IN-1
appends the listing files into a single RMS file.
The processing to append the listing files has to handle the situation that
they are created by different formatters and have different RMS Record
attributes. Files with different RMS Record attributes cannot be appended
together so ALL-IN-1 uses the text dataset mechanism to recreate the files
with known Record attributes. It appears that the LN03 files created by
the WPS-PLUS V4 Formatter cannot be read through the text dataset
mechanism.
Two possible workarounds are:
1. Use a different print style. Styles for which WPS-PLUS does not use
absolute positioning appear to work.
2. If you know that the message and all attachments will be formatted by
the WPS-PLUS formatter create a new Print Destination which uses a
variant of the WPPFILE print completion script that uses APPEND/FILE to
append the LN03 listing files together.
Richard
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