On Friday, 12/16/2005 at 02:52 EST, "Horlick, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok (have patience with me on this). > > Let's suppose I have 2 printers PRTA and PRTB using 2 different > translate tables (say PRTA uses CANADIAN and PRTB uses 00371252). All > the data for a printer (forms or no forms, CMS or VSE output) would be > translated using its own translate table. > > I define them as > > LINKDEF PRTA TYPE LPR FORM * AST > PARM PRTA EXIT=LPRXONE EP='C=LPRA ...' ... > LINKDEF PRTB TYPE LPR FORM * AST > PARM PRTB EXIT=LPRXONE EP='C=LPRB ...' ... > > In my PROFILE GCS on RSCS 191 disk I Have > > FILEDEF LPRA DISK LPRA CONFIG * > FILEDEF LPRB DISK LPRB CONFIG * > > Within the file 'LPRA CONFIG' I have TOASCII and TOASCIIC statements > that represent the translate table CANADIAN and in 'LPRB CONFIG' I Have > TOASCII and TOASCII statements that represent the translate table > 00371252. > > Is this the way to do it ?
Yes, though you very likely don't need TOASCIIC unless you have printer queue names with ... them dang odd-ball furrin [ARGHHH! CHUCKIE, GO AWAY!] ... ahem, sorry .... non-USASCII characters in them. > I understand that in the LPRXFORM I can create forms and for each form I > can specify 'TRANS=string' within the LPRXFORM file but isn't there only > 1 form file for all printers (as specified by the FILEDEF LPRXFORM > statement)? Les or someone else will have to answer your LPRXFORM question, but I believe your statement is correct; there is a single name space for FORMs in RSCS just as there is in CP. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
