Capturing spoolfiles

[PAUL BAKER]

I am trying to retain a copy of a spoolfile after it has successfully printed. The problem is that after a successful print, the dfA... file is deleted from the /var/spool/lp/request/ directory.
Any ideas? We are running HP-UX 10.20.

Paul Baker

[Devbinder Singh Marway]

why don't you disable the printer , send the file to it and copy it and then re-enable the printer
or in your printer interface script ( depends which model you have defined) where it does the print pipe nad tee it to a file

printer cmds | tee /tmp/filename


HTH

[John McWilliams]

Can you change the format of the proccess that generates the output to send it to a file and then print it. Otherwise add a line in the start of your printer interface file to copy the dfA file to another location.