Tim,
I found out my problem unzipping the file from the USPS site was that I had
Filezip, maybe an old version. I uninstalled Filezip on my Windows XP
system and then I was able to unzip the USPS file. Instead of XmitManager
and afrreblk, I used another tool I have for reading XMIT format files a
Hello
Remember I am starting with a zip file from the USPS. I do not an "MVS" s
ystem. I used the "XMIT Manager" to get the files out on a PC since that
is the best I could do. The files on the PC do Equal the files on VM I us
ed a hex editor and Xedit hextype. There are extra likely file format
Tim,
I don't understand the last paragraph. When you move AFP resources around,
just use binary all the time. There is no such thing as blocks or records
on the PC, and then you do a binary upload to a VM file that is RECFM V and
then run AFRREBLK to fix it.
If you enter afrreblk ?
it gives so
On Friday, 01/28/2011 at 06:32 EST, "Tim O'Brien"
wrote:
> but it's all ONE record
>
> NOTHING generated an error message or warning about file not be
correctly
> formatted
>
> My quick guess is that either extracted from the TSO file or the pc
version
> of VMARC does not know how/where the
Hello
Ok I took the Zip file and extracted the fonts ...
Yep the 240 are not needed .. but just in case I'm doing both and watchin
g
my filetype names
So now I have the Files as they would be on MVS .. but sitting on the PC
..
likely not blocked as why would you need that, when the library shou
David,
What two issues are conflated? I'm getting confused now. I was only
trying to answer Tim's question about how to get the USPS AFP fonts for IMB
into a format that PSF/VM could use.
Can you give a link to what you see that indicates "AFP now natively
supports PCL4 printers"? Many kinds
I think we're conflating two issues — I wanted to know about the issue of PCL.
I'm playing with an idea to be able to eliminate some of the outboard
processing. From what I can see in the docs (at least for z/OS AFP), AFP now
natively supports PCL4 printers. I'm curious if anyone has tried this
Tim,
My guess would be that the MPI Tech Blue Server (if it is doing the
transform I think it is) is only going to use the 300 pel version of the
fonts, and that both the 240 and 300 pel versions have the same member names
so you will need to keep them separate.
--Roger
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9
Tim,
>From this earlier note of yours, I assume that you are using the AFP fonts
for PSF/VM to print to the MPI Tech Blue Server (I'm not familiar with the
MPI Tech Blue Server) so that PSF/VM sees it as an IPDS printer, and the
Blue Server transforms the AFP data into PCL for the printer.
On W
Tim,
For AFP resource files like fonts that have been uploaded in a binary format
from a PC, you probably need to reblock them into the normal record
structure for the host. See
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psd1P4000182 to get the
AFRREBLK tool for MVS and VM. There are links on
Hello
Ok I got all the files/program
XmitManager (takes the file out of the tso receive)
USPS zip file (has the files)
VMA (pc version of vmarc)
unziped the file
pull the 240 & 300 fonts out of the PDS format
used VMA to create a VMARC of the files
ind$file that up to customer's VM site
run
I have NOT tried this, but there is a tool called XmitManager from
cbttape.org that might help. If you can unzip a file from the original zip
package that is supposed to be an sequential unloaded PDS file from the XMIT
command, it might be able to pull the individual members from that to your
PC w
Hello
This customer's printing to PCL is via MPI Tech's Blue server
z/vse(s) -> z/vm queue -> psf 2 grp 4 -> tcp -> PC Blue server -> printer
this setup has kept working over a few vm upgrades I just moved the
minidisks between the upgrade
sorry I could give you better info
tim
Hello
to Quote the included PDF file on the MVS install
The files to be uploaded are unloaded MVS partitioned data sets (PDS) in
TSO
Transmit format. To restore the files for use on an MVS system you wil
l
require:
- A personal computer equipped with an emulator capable of doing a binary
upl
Has anyone attempted to use the PCL4 support in AFP recently? I've been
experimenting with some stuff that needs to transform AFP output into something
a bit more widely accepted, but don't seem to be getting the right AFP-fu to
produce useful PCL output.
Examples would be greatly appreciated.
For some reason, right now, when I try to download and
unzip uspsFontsAFP-1.4.0.zip my system is telling me it isn't a valid Zip
archive, so I can't look inside, but here's what I suggest.
Don't use the VSE fonts. VSE does link the fonts into phases, as you noted,
and those phases are not useful
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