Weird dreport problem

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Mar 3 18:44:24 PST 2004


On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:57:11PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> [...]
> > It runs the first subtotal section just fine, showing ART's records, in
> > job number order.  It does his subtotal break.
> > 
> > Then it does the grand total break, and quits.
> > 
> > Tracing it from a debug in the wbrk, it does that, then goes directly
> > to the wgt, runs that and exits.
> > 
> > The countdown is in the proper place at that point, 1120 out of 1150
> > (or some numbers close to that).
> [...]
> 
> If @WBRK and @WGT run, filePro thinks you have reached the end of the
> records.

For the break and the whole report respectively, yes.  I expected WBRK.
I did *not* expect WGT; I expected...

>          Given the sort criteria, what record should come after the
> last one dreport sees?

... a batch of records for CHRIS.  Which, as noted, *are* in the data file.

>                        Is that record corrupt somehow?  Are you
> running off an index, or is dreport doing the sort/select?

-a -u, no -v; records don't appear corrupt.

> Out of curiosity, in @WGT, what are the values of @TS and @RP?

Dunno; will check.  As noted; Records Selected and Generating Output
are correct before the exit.

Cheers,
-- jra
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