Printing to a file

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Wed May 26 10:47:02 PDT 2004


George Simon wrote:
> 
> Yes, but it is writing the header and the first record.  It only barfs when
> it tries to write the next record.
> Anyhow, that problem has been solved.  I'm not writing to that directory
> anymore, I'm writing to /tmp and it doesn't give me an error there.
> The problem now is that only the last record and the totals are in the file.
> I guess it is overwriting the file each time.
> How is this avoided in *nix?  It (the syntax) would work fine in Windows.
[...]

Are you executing the PRINTER commands on every record?  You should do
them only when you actually want to change the output.

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