I need help formatting a text portion on a form

[Boaz Bezborodko]

Bill Randall wrote:
>
>
> On 3/23/2010 10:58 AM, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>> I am starting business with a customer where I have to print out their
>> packing slip form my system.  They send me all the information in a file
>> which I import into my order system and I need to get some of the
>> information onto a form in the format that they use.  One of the fields
>> is a message to the recipient that takes a 148 character field and
>> requires that it be formatted into a 37-character by 4 line note on the
>> form with proper word-wrap.
>>
>> I was going to use a memo field so that I can use FP's embedding-object
>> functions to do the formatting.  But I
>> m having trouble getting the information into the memo field.  I am
>> using OPEN(), WRITELINE(), and CLOSE() to create a temporary file and
>> then issue the command MEMO xx IMPORT "<filename>".  When I do this I
>> get a general protection fault.and it craps out.
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong?  Should I be doing this a different way?
>>
>>    
>
> Can we see your actual syntax?  I just did a quick test and it worked 
> fine.
>
> Bill
>
:ord(53) ne "":ar=OPEN("MemoTemp.txt","rwc0t"):
:ord(53) ne "":as=WRITELINE(ar,ord(53)):
:ord(53) ne "":zy=CLOSE(ar):
:ord(53) ne "":MEMO 201 import "MemoTemp.txt":