Re: PC printing of .txt files containing maiframe listings

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: PaulGBoulder@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PC printing of .txt files containing maiframe listings
To: IBM-MAIN@xxxxxxxxxxx

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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