System command, dreport and data transfer

Tue Jan 30 09:59:51 PST 2007

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.

[...]
> Be careful with your dummy variable names: your subroutine will be in
> the input table's namespace.