Re: Cannot close spool file

Gillian Lezama wrote:
>
> I am in SQL*Plus and have output that I want to spool to a file. I am doing the
> following:
>
> SQL> spool well_id.lst
> SQL> /
> .
> .
> .
> .
> SQL> spool out
> cannot close spool filelpr: lw : unknown printer
>

Have you tried chaning the name of the spooled file? If so do you get the same error? I don't know how Oracle creates a spool file, but it sounds like, in your case, it is attempting to spool out to a Unix device, in particular a printer device. You shouldn't be getting this type of error.

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