Print job still spooling after FORM command executed

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Thu May 7 19:24:09 PDT 2009


Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> There is an older program on my system that I didn't write.  While in 
> IUA on an invoice record an @KEY command calls a separate processing 
> table to print the invoice.  The table calculates the necessary fields 
> and then generates the printout with a FORM command.  What I noticed 
> today is that the job remains open for spooling in the queue after this 
> is done and the queue doesn't close allowing the job to print until you 
> exit out of IUA.
> 
> Apparently it's always acted the same way, but I didn't know this since 
> I don't run this program myself and no one told me about it.
> 
> According to my reading of the manual FORM should close the spool and 
> allow the job to print.  What could stop this from happening?

If filePro thinks the output is going to a file, rather than a pipe, then it 
will not close the file after each form.  What is the exact destination 
filePro has been told to use?

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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