Two for the road, Report from Clerk & Nonstandard Subtotals

[Jeff Harrison]

--- John Esak <john at valar.com> wrote:

[snip]
> 
> Sure, I'm happy to drop it as well... however, may I
> point out that in your
> penultimate message, you were _still_ telling me
> that I could use the -xa
> procedure to do what I was doing... 

[snip]

Nope.  This is what you do not understand.  I am
talking about the final result.  I did not say, "John
you can do exactly what you are doing step by step,
and use the -xa flag, and sit on the same record upon
which you are reporting."

Instead, what I tried to do was describe a solution 
that would give you the following final result:

A report that combines multiple files, and also does
additional subtotaling after the grand total.  Also
this report should not be corrupted by multiple
instances running at one time.

John, I imagine that there are hundreds of ways to
solve this problem.  I'm not saying that mine is the
best.  I was simply offering some of my thoughts on
the GENERAL topic of these types of reports, and 

And yes, I feel that you were shutting me out here.  I
also feel that you were denigrating my abilities by
saying repeatedly that I had come up with nothing new.
 (I actually thought that creating a unique qualifier
on the fly was a pretty cool idea, and original as far
as I know).

But don't worry.  My feelings are not hurt too badly
:-)

And props here to Ken Brody.  Who posted a very
reasonable approach to these types of exchanges. 
Unfortunately, for me it is very difficult to take
something like this off-line and thereby give up the
possibility of getting the last word in :-)

Aw, I guess there's not much chance of that happening
anyway, huh? :-) Hmm... come to think of it if I do a
reply all - you said you would not respond to me any
longer...  Its nice to know that option is available. 
:-)

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest way to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.



		
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