Fw: printer file "name" - problem

[Dennis Malen]

It prints the report instead.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: printer file "name" - problem


> Quoting Dennis Malen (Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:43:12 -0500):
> [...]
>> Is there any way to override in  "rreport" format a printer that is
>> defined?
>> Ken will ask me what is defined mean! The printer is defined in Extended
>> Function under Options.
> 
> You can use the PRINTER commands in processing to override the value set
> in the output format.
> 
>> The processing below does not do it. Ken will ask
>> me, "Do what?". It does not allow the ASCII file to be written to the
>> disk.
> 
> How, exactly, does it "not allow" the file to be written?  What does it
> do instead?
> 
> [...]
>> > Then: pa(1,*,g)
>> >   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>> > If: pa=""
>> > Then: PUTENV "FPONEHEAD","on"
>> >   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>> > If: pa=""
>> > Then: printer type "nocodes"
>> >   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>> > If: pa=""
>> > Then:  printer file "/tmp/dailydep"
>> >  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>> >
>> > Then:pa="p";end
>> >  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>> > @done" If:
>> > Then: system "cat /tmp/dailydep|pg";end
> 
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