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You can use the OFFLINE command to send reports directly to a printer or a file without first displaying them on the screen. Simply issue the command

OFFLINE

before a report request.

Generally, this directs all offline reports to the default output spool file. This file is assigned automatically when you enter FOCUS, and is in almost all cases a printer.

However, if you already issued the report request to be displayed online, you can still send its output to the printer simply by entering the following two commands at the FOCUS command prompt:

OFFLINE
RETYPE

You can also direct report output to a printer from within a report request by using the ON TABLE command:

ON TABLE SET PRINT OFFLINE

You can use OFFLINE to send reports to a file by allocating the ddname OFFLINE to the desired file using the FOCUS DYNAM command. The DYNAM command is described in the Overview and Operating Environments manual.

You can reroute report output to your screen by issuing the following command at the FOCUS command prompt:

ONLINE

You can reroute it only for the current request by including an ON TABLE SET PRINT ONLINE command in the request. Be sure also to issue the following command to close any current spool file and enable you to allocate new ones:

OFFLINE CLOSE

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To send all or part of a report displayed in HotScreen to an OFFLINE output device, press PF4.

The following print menu is displayed at the bottom of the screen:

1-Print entire report 2-Print this page 3-Cancel 4-Hold

1. Reformats the report to current page settings and then sends the entire report to a printer.
2. Prints the report page displayed, as formatted on the terminal screen.
3. Removes the print menu.
4. Creates a HOLD file using the entire report. The Master and FOCTEMP files have the default name HOLD.

Press the desired number key (not function key) and then press Enter.