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BARRWRAP

Use this utility to reformat z/OS-generated Metacode output for submission to a BARR system for Xerox printing on a local area network.

Program names

Windows: BARRWW32.EXE
z/OS:See the Documaker Installation Guide.

Syntax

BARRWW32 /I

Parameter	Description
/I	The Metacode file. The extension must be MET, which you can omit.

The file will be formatted for BARR spool output and the output file name will have the same name with a TXT extension.

This utility converts Metacode output from a JES2 format to a BARR format. The BARR interface attachment for Xerox Metacode printers requires Metacode print stream files to contain BARR specific information. BARRWRAP adds this information to an existing Metacode print stream file, allowing the output file to be printed via the BARR interface. After the utility is run on the Metacode file, “76 1A FF 00” will be added at the beginning of the file which informs BARR that the file is of Metacode type. A byte denoting record length is also added at the beginning and end of each record in the file.

To use this utility, you must set these INI options:

Environment=MVS

OutMode=JES2

BARRWRAP is useful when testing the GenPrint program on z/OS. If the z/OS system is not directly channel attached to the Xerox printer, you have to download the print data stream to a Windows system. (use no ASCII translation, but do use CR/LF). Then, using BARRWRAP, it is packaged to pass through BARR/SPOOL successfully.

Note

Occasionally, binary data contained in the Metacode file has a sequence of hex bytes x’0D0A’, which could be misinterpreted as a carriage return / line feed. This is true particularly for charts and other inline graphics. Such data streams should be BARRWRAPped on the z/OS platform before being downloaded with no ASCII and no CR/LF options.