Re: Microfocus MFExpress Cobol listing

Are you still playing with this problem?

Send me an e-mail tomorrow at my work and I will look and see in my
microfocus net express if the listing can be printed.

Another thing you might try is if you have a unix machine you can ftp the
file to send the listing to the unix machine, you probably have a hex editor
on the unix machine and see what the characters are that are causing the
problem. On a listing it should be nothing more than a carriage return. We
have a utility on our unix machine to strip out those characters and just
turn it into a line sequential file.

My work e-mail is charles@xxxxxx

One last thing. Is there a reason you are working so hard to see the
listing file? Any error you encounter will be listed to the ide and you
don't have to look in the listing. I have yet to look at a net express
listing file in about 2 years of working with it.


"Mike" <MPBrede@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1127963805.092637.159180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Larry Kahm wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > A couple of years ago I wrote an article for mainframe folks who needed
to
> > print reports on their local printers. I developed a Microsoft Word
macro
> > that converted the ANSI character in column 1 to Word page breaks.
> >
> > You can find the article here
> > http://www.naspa.com/02articlesbymonth.htm#september if you scroll down
a
> > little bit.
> >
> > I >think< the files are available to non-Technical Support magazine
> > subscribers here
> > http://www.naspa.com/cgi/library.cgi?library=techsupt&file_index=0 - but
> > you'll have to look through the list to find the right file.
> >
> > Hope that helps!
> >
>
> Larry, thanks for the pointers. The NASPA guys want $40 before they'll
> let me download :( I tried but failed to copy text off the PDF, so I'll
> be reduced to printing it and retyping it. I think I'll have to modify
> it a tad, as I do not have only page breaks, but also other carriage
> control characters, such as 2 lines advance, etc. I'll also have to
> figure out what the hex code for those characters are, because in the
> files they appear as unprintable.
>
> I think I'm just missing something basic, though. Surely Microfocus
> would not produce a file that cannot be opened and printed from
> _something_?? It took me a while to figure out that the output from the
> MF jobs could be printed with carriage control *only* if one
> right-click on them in the Spool pane and select Print. All other menu
> options fail to print them with cc intact. So that is the holy grail
> for this quest of mine.
>
> Perhaps a kind sould at MF will see my question over in their user
> forums and enlighten me.
>


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