System command, dreport and data transfer

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 01:28:32PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Kenneth Brody (Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:59:51 -0500):
> > Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:46:30 -0500):
> > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:35:11PM -0500, Dan Snyder wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > Can anyone confirm that the system command does or doesn't work in
> > > > output processing?
> > >
> > > Sure it would.  But it's not your solution.
> > [...]
> > > You don't say, though, the context in which you're doing this.  I'm
> > > going to assume, from the way you phrase 1), that this is going to
> > > happen from an active record in dclerk.
> >
> > I read it as being run from output processing in *report.  But, you
> > are correct that he isn't explicit in this information.
> 
> My mistake.  He does explicitly state it's from *report:
> 
>   1. "D-Request Output" on file1, select the records I want (customer &
>   date range), using a report that subtotals by part number and calls
>   the following in the subtotal processing...

He said he had tried doing that to perform his task... but it doesn't
say whether that's called from dclerk, or not.  I assumed he built the
whole thing as an output table, and them SYSTEMd it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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