NBSpool for MPE Reference Guide

NBSpool Output Commands
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KEEP
The
KEEP
command copies some or all of the currently texted spool file into a permanent disk file.
By default, the new file will contain all of the carriage control (
CCTL
) information from the spool
file. It can then be edited and
FCOPY
ed back into a spool file without losing formatting information.
Important! Laser printer environment information is not written to the keep file and
will be lost.
By specifying the
EXPAND
parameter, a simple flat file without
CCTL
will be created. Line spacing
carriage control directives will be translated to an appropriate number of blank lines. If a large
number of blank lines are inserted, the default size of the disk file may not be large enough. You
must use a file equation to increase the file size before issuing the
KEEP
command. By specifying
the
NOCCTL
parameter, a simple flat file without
CCTL
will be created.
The
;REC=AUTO
parameter allows you to request that the keep file be built with the smallest record
size which can hold the spool file.
KEEP Syntax
O> KEEP filename [;REC=[AUTO|recsize]
[,[blkfact]
[,[F|V]
[,[ASCII|BINARY]]]]]
[;EXPAND]
[;NOCCTL]
[;RANGE=first[/last]]
[;SAVECCTL]
User Tip. This command may be abbreviated to
K
.