Printing to a file

[John Esak]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at bestweb.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:08 AM
> To: john at valar.com
> Cc: Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Printing to a file
>
>
> John Esak wrote:
> [...]
> > If the end result is to get this output into Excel, could you
> just export
> > the data from filePro directly into an Excel table... and let
> Excel handle
> > the different font style you want?  Rick, my colleague here,
> uses SYLK files
> > to get stuff nicely into Excel.  I used to use these export
> files all the
> > time in Multiplan years ago... my bet is JPR still does this.
> :-)  In any
> > case, the syntax is:
> >
> > then: export MULTI myexcelfilename=c:\wherever-you-want-the-file
> > then: myexcelfilename(1)=13;  myexcelfilename(2)=31;
> myexcelfilename(3)=14
> > ...
> > then: end
> [...]
>
> Another method, if going to a word processor, is to use EXPORT ASCII and
> use tabs as field delimiters (f=\t).  Many word processors will import
> tab-delimited text files into columns.
>

Yes, but I have always never seen the usefulness of this because you have no
(or limited) control over the row... right?  What good is this?  Does
filePro automatically put each record on its own row??  I guess I should try
this... but too much to do right now.

John