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Spooling Screen Lists
As well as creating spool lists, screen lists can also be sent to the
SAP spool system. To do this, use the Print function in the list
display. This function converts the screen list into a spool list, where
the spool format specified in the spool
parameters is used to split the list and shorten it, if necessary.
However, this usually results in the following problems:
A list that has been formatted as a screen list is not appropriate for
spool output, because:
A screen list usually consists of one logical page. This logical page
must be divided into multiple physical spool pages for the spooling
process. Since the screen list contains only one
page header , this page header is used as
the page header of every spool page. If it contains page numbering, then
every spool page has the same page number (usually 1).
Screen lists are usually very wide (> 130 columns). A normal printer can
print these lists only by truncating the lines.
A screen list does not support any special print control sequences as
they appear, for example, in the statement
PRINT-CONTROL .
Notes
For the reasons mentioned this type of spooling should not be used for
production purposes. It is designed only as a way of capturing a screen
for testing purposes.
A screen list cannot contain any index lines created using
PRINT-CONTROL . Indexed searches are not
possible in an archived screen list.
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