> First, thank you for saying "Fortran" rather than "ASCII". The> convention is
> part of the FORTRAN (and, I believe, COBOL) spec,> not of ASCII as is so
> commonly misstated.
I don't remember ever calling it "ASCII".
I always thought of it as "ASA" print control.
> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:02:27 -0500
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: PC printing of .txt files containing maiframe listings
> To: [email protected]
>
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:34:31 -0800, gah wrote:
> >
> >It is a standard part of the printing subsystem on many
> >unix systems. It is called the "fortran filter", traditionally
> >used for printing the output of Fortran programs. In the case
> >of most unix systems, it converts to Postscript. If one doesn't
> >have a PS printer the output is run through Ghostscript to convert
> >to the appropriate printer output format.
> >
> >It seems to be built into the PPR printing system:
> >
> > http://ppr.trincoll.edu/ppr-doc-1.51/pprdoc/pprdoc.html
> >
> First, thank you for saying "Fortran" rather than "ASCII". The
> convention is part of the FORTRAN (and, I believe, COBOL) spec,
> not of ASCII as is so commonly misstated.
>
> The obsolete "lpr" command had an even more obsolete "-f" option
> to perform this function. When I discovered that no longer
> worked, I wrote my own "fortran filter", "landscape -f" as a shell
> script (mostly an instream PostScript program) to perform the
> function.
>
> I mentioned lately on one of these lists that I have an ISPF Edit
> macro, "putpipe" that pipes the edit buffer into a z/OS Unix command.
> So, from the command line of an SDSF SE display, I can:
>
> putpipe path/to/landscape -f >path/to/SYSPRINT.ps
>
> (This works best on a wider than 80-column screen. But that's a
> different thread.) Then, since we have UNIX filesystems mounted
> on both z/OS and Solaris, I can print the .ps file from Solaris.
>
> Would Infoprint Server incorporate some of this? Isn't it ironic
> that z/OS Unix has a "lp" command that prints to the JES spool, but
> TSO has a "lpr" command that prints to TCP/IP?
>
> -- gil
>
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