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When you drag and drop a spool file to your desk top using OPS Nav all it
does is a simple translation to a .TXT file. In order to maintain page
breaks you would have to write a program that copies the spool file to a
database file along with forms control characters:
*FCFC
Specifies that the first character of every record
contains one of the ANSI forms control codes listed in
the CL Reference manual.
And then read these control characters using this information to
determine line spacing and page breaks.
Personally, I have not taken the time to develop a program like this because
there are several software developers who have already done this. It is
cheaper for me to spend a few bucks purchasing their software than to have
my company pay me to develop something from scratch.
My personal choice is the spool manipulation products from Gumbo Software.
The one I think you would find to be extremely useful is SpoolMail. Using
their command interface, it is possible to e-mail a Spoolfile to a list of
addresses in several different formats RTF, PDF and TIFF, not only TXT.
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