15 Hardcopy Mode for capturing screens to a print file

All masks produced by CFS can be captured to a file. CFS will capture the screens with correct line and column justification. In addition to screens, the executed Actions can also be captured.

Hardcopy mode is set with the HC command. From this point on, all masks and Actions in the main CFS task will be captured. Hardcopy mode can be reset with the NHC command (No HardCopy).

Without explicitly switching on the hardcopy mode, individual screens from the main CFS task (e.g. a section of the current Display file) can be captured by pressing F3 . It should be noted that each screen captured with F3 will appear in the listing on a new page. This is in contrast to the normal hardcopy mode (HC command), where multiple screens can appear on a single page. Transmitting a mask with the F3 key will cause CFS to behave as though DUE1 had been pressed, irrespective of the hardcopy function.

Input/output can also be captured to a hardcopy file for all Connections opened with OC. The hardcopy mode can be activated in two different ways for Connections. An HC [file] [,params] command can be issued in the Connection itself, or an HCn command can be issued from the main task of CFS. The hardcopy mode is reset by issuing an NHC command from within the Connection, or NHCn from the COMMAND field in the main mask.

The hardcopy command and its parameters are described below.

HC [n] [file] [, L] [, B] [, T] [, E|O] [, A|F] [, G|I] [, S] [, R] [, RS]

All of the HC command switches are optional. If any option is not specified, the default value will apply.