Two for the road, Report from Clerk & Nonstandard Subtotals

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:36:42PM -0500, John Esak wrote:
> Jay said...
> > > Brian White will make the code available to the list if anyone wants
> > > >it.
> > >
> > > Who wouldn't want this? :-) I look forward to the post. We have been
> > > doing this for about 10 years now. All of our customer required
> > > reports can be faxxed, emailed or printed, with filePro keeping
> > > the email and fax info on file for easy or defaulted retrieval.
> > > Occasionally, we have the need to send out .pdf attachments of our
> > > reports and forms which we accomplish with a rather excellent pcl2pdf
> > > function that we simply purchased. I'm sure there are the usual 100
> > > free linux versions of this tool. As for this kind of functionality in
> > > general, printing to various types of output, well, it was not in the
> > > scope of what I was trying to show, otherwise the message would have
> > > been even longer than it was! So, Brian's disclosure of Howie'e code
> > > on how to do it will be most welcomed by the list I'm sure. Thanks! To
> > > bad you can't issue such orders to Howie, himself... :-)
> >
> > Now, now, John; your snark level is climbing a bit, there.  ;-)
> 
> Excuse me?  What in the world could you be talking about. Two things...
> don't know what a snark is, but it sounds "not good"... and don't see what
> you could be implying or inferring. I merely, andclearly I thought, said I
> would love to see some of Howie's tips andtrck tricks up here... and more so
> than Brian's.

This wasn't at all clear from "Brian's disclosure of Howie's code".

I hadn't seen that Brian said anything about the code being Howie's;
did I miss something?

>                 Surely, you don't believe their filePro expertise is anywhere
> in the same ballpark do you?

I don't have an opinion on their relative expertise, but it wasn't on
point anyway.

>                                My comment, was just aimed to say, hey if you
> can get Brian to dump code and examples up here, it certainly would be great
> if you could get Howie to do the same. I'm wasn't denigrating Brian's
> filePro ability in _any_ way... But Brian has been coding in filePro, when
> he does, for probably only 4 or 5 years. Howie on the other hand... well..
> :-)  So, it was simply a nice comment about Howie, nothing more.

Perhaps I was in a bad mood when I was reading it, but it didn't come
off that way to me; it sounded like you were tweaking someone.
Politely, certainly, but still tweaking.  If not; my bad.

>                                                                     I'm a
> little offended that you couched it so differently. Jay, why do you feel the
> need to do that kind of thing ALL the time.  It sure gets old... to me, at
> least.

We each have idiosyncracies of presentation that other people take
wrong at times.  You think someone misread you, you clear it up, and
move on.  That's why what I said was "your snark level is rising :-)",
rather than "John; you self-important ass!" 

:-) ^ 2

Do let us not get into *another* slugfest; we were doing so well...

Cheers,
-- jra
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