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?
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Kenneth Brody
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