You can't do that

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 08:33P Tue Aug 30 2005, Brian K. White wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Asman" <jlasman at telus.net>
> To: <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:05 PM
> Subject: Re: You can't do that
> 
> 
> > --------------- Original Message ---------------
> > At 02:41P Tue Aug 30 2005, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> >
> >> Here are some things that I never found a good way to
> >> do using filepro.  Please prove me wrong if you can.
> >>
> >> Say that I have "remove unwanted blank lines" checked
> >> off on my output format, but I want to conditionally
> >> force a blank line based on some logic in my code.  I
> >> have a couple of ways that I have used to do this, but
> >> none of them are really "good" i.e. easy to use,
> >> generic, portable, and intrinsic to filepro.
> >>
> >> Here is what I have used for this in the past:
> >>
> >> A.  Use a dummy field that you populate with a
> >> character that does not print on the given printer.
> >> (Of course you can't use the space character for this
> >> because filepro assumes this would be an unwanted
> >> blank line.) - this solution is printer dependent.
> >>
> >
> > Conditionally populate a variable with chr("13") !
> 
> Then filepro gets out of touch with reality and puts page breaks and new 
> page headers and grand totals in the middles of pages.
> 

Huh?

No LF has been added?

I've NEVER had such maladies!!!


Jim 
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