printer file "name" - problem

[Laura Brody]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:09:26 -0500, Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com> wrote:

> Laura,
>
> I do have your Quick Reference Guide and also find it a handy reference.
>
> Your explanation of umask was great. I finally understand it, although I don't think I need it in my processing (unless you insist) as the file is being written to the /tmp file, although not correctly without modifications that I should not have to make (explained below).
>
> In conclusion, I think you are saying my processing code is correct.
>

	The processing that you posted is correct, but could you post
the entire prc table?

> I will go back and try it again but the two problems I was initially having with this code are:
>
> 1. It would not over ride the defined printer in the report format. I solved that by copying over the report and not defining a printer (shouldn't have to do that);

	You can override it with either a PRINTER command in processing
or one of the -P flags on the command line. If the PRINTER command
isn't changing the printer destination, you must not be executing
the PRINTER command in your processing table. Please post the code
so we can point out any problems in it.

	As a test, add a printer definition to print to a file in
Printer Maint, and then put a -PQ on your command line. Select the
new printer and see what happens. It should override the printer
definition in the output format just fine.

>
> 2. When I copied the report over so there was no interference with any defined printer (since there was none) the file created was composed of each record being written and then adding 63 blank lines (definition of the page length was 64) and wrote the next page in a similar fashion. Pulling 93 records creating 93 pages scrolling through the screen. When I defined the length of the page as 1 (as opposed to 64), it then printed correctly on the screen.

	It sounds like filePro was doing what you told it... the only
question is, what do you want it to do? <g> Can I safely assume that
you want the final report to have more than one record per page?


> So I am really back to square one from my initial post.

	Please add the MSGBOX command on the line above the
PRINTER command like Ken already asked you to do. Just
humor us and verify that the PRINTER command is actually
being executed.

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