syatem command and dummy fields

[Dennis Malen]

I thought the parens were required. I'll remove them. Thanks!

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: syatem command and dummy fields


> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:17:14PM -0400, Dennis Malen wrote:
>> Just want to report that the following works. This opens up a tremendous
>> amount of opportunities to control reports that are to be run and which 
>> can
>> be changed on the fly without entering processing.
>>
>> -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>>   ~ If:
>>   Then: ba=7;bc=8
>> -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>>   ~ If:
>>   Then: system "/appl/fp/rreport"<(ba)<"-f"<(bc)<"-v vrab -a -u"
>>
>> Thanks to everyone. This is extremely efficient for us. Hope this helps
>> someone else.
>
> It will, but it will tie up an extra license.
>
> And the parens are optional; you're not putting your ba and bc
> variables in a context where filePro expects literal strings.
>
> For extra credit, you can *write the output processing as a text file*
> from the processing which calls it.
>
> I went a step further than that, 25 years ago on ... damn; I don't even
> remember.  IBM Datamaster 23?
>
> Yeah; the basic was the system language, and a miserable batch
> language; no DOS.
>
> We wrote our menu programs in BASIC, they wrote batch files to call the
> apps after writing the parameters into... damn, I don't even remember
> the details.  I do recall we had one place that was 5 layers deep,
> though:
>
> BASIC->BATCH->BASIC->BATCH->BASIC
>
> I thought it extremely elegant at the time, but I was also, like 17.
> It was probably hackery of the worst order.  ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
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