Fw: printer file "name" - problem

[Kenneth Brody]

(Top-posting corrected.)

Quoting Dennis Malen (Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:12:52 -0500):

[...]
> >> 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?
[...]
> >> > If: pa=""
> >> > Then:  printer file "/tmp/dailydep"
[...]
> It prints the report instead.

Then perhaps the PRINTER FILE command is never executed?  Change the
above line to:

    If: pa = ""
  Then: mesgbox "About to do PRINTER FILE" ; printer file "/tmp/dailydep"

Make sure that the message box shows up.

Also, is the 6 lines of code that you posted the entire processing table?

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