rreport on Windows

[Bruce Easton]

Kenneth Brody wrote Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:09 AM:
> Quoting Bruce Easton (Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:47:48 -0400):
> 
> > I have an output process that creates records in another file for
> > several hundred records (Windows 2000 server w/filepro 5.08).
> 
> filePro "5.08"?  I assume you mean "5.0.08"?

Yes.  But actually I was mistaken.  Their filePro is actually 
5.0.14.

> 
> > When the process starts, the whole screen goes blank and never
> > shows the count-down of selected records (right now all but one
> > record in the file).  I don't get anything back on the screen
> > until the process is finished.  Is this normal behavior for
> > Windows filePro?
> 
> No.
> 

Any ideas on what causes this?  I run the request from their 
development menu which has /fp/rreport - -u -j -pq 
and the config editor shows the env:

pfprt C:\testing.txt
pfprtc nocodes
pfver ON
pfpto 20
pfnet ON
pffiles 300
pftoksize 300000
pfformtoksize 300000

The icon that starts up filepro has command his buffer size 50 
and number of buffers 4 and layout window height of 25 lines 
(someone wrote and asked about this).

There is no output to screen from the process.  I do close 
records I'm writing to at the end of each record processed 
in the current file.

Someone said that if this process is going fast enough and 
nothing ever slows it down, that I may never see a 
record count down and nothing can be done. 

Is that true?  (The screen was blank for a good 3-4 minutes.)

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.