Printing from MUSIC/SP Posted to H390-music discussion group as message #256 Sep 23, 2005 (+ later additions) Last updated: Oct 16, 2005 The trick to get output to go to the printer (device 00E in the MUSIC demo system), rather than to the MUSIC Output Queue, is to generate the output from a MUSIC Batch job. Set up the control statements for your job in a file, e.g. myjob, then enter the command: submit myjob r(system) There is a sample batch job in ccde:batch.job . On Sim390, the batch output is appended to the printer file defined in the Sim390 config file, and then you can view it using Notepad or Wordpad, and actually print it from there. Printer control chars in column 1 are supported, except "1" only skips a blank line, instead of skipping to a new page. Hercules printing is similar (but I have not tried it). If you are fortunate enough to have Hummingbird's HostExplorer as your tn3270 (3270 emulator), you can print directly from MUSIC to a Windows printer or the Clipboard, by using the special route name PC1, e.g. "print myfile r(pc1)". There are some missing $PGM files needed for this -- I will include them in the upcoming misc7.arc update. I have tested this with HostExplorer version 4.0, which is quite old; later versions may also work. See also: ccde:batch.job (in update misc7.arc) ccde:util.print.job (in update misc7.arc) ccde:printing.sim390 (in update misc7.arc) command: /help print