There are two methods you may use to create a spool. You may declare a spool using the spool command, or you may print an object to a new spool.

To declare an empty spool, use the keyword spool followed by a name for the new spool:

creates a new, empty spool object MYNEWSPOOL.

A new spool may also be created by printing from an object to a non-existent spool. To print to a spool you must redirect the output of print jobs to the spool using the output command. For example, the command:

instructs EViews to send all subsequent print jobs to the MYNEWSPOOL spool (see output).

Once you redirect your output, you may create a spool using the print command or the “p” option of an object view or procedure.

creates the spool object MYNEWSPOOL and appends a copy of TAB1. Alternately,

appends the EQ1 equation output to the newly created spool object.

To turn off redirection, simply issue the command