I need help formatting a text portion on a form

[Boaz Bezborodko]

Rkreiss at verizon.net] wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boaz Bezborodko <boaz at mirrotek.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:58 AM
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> Subject: I need help formatting a text portion on a form
>
> 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 warp______________________________________
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> My suggestion would to use filePro's wordwrap function.  This will allow you to format your output as needed.
>
> I am currently generating 5 or 6 form letters for a client this way.  
>
> Richard Kreiss
> GCCConsulting
>   

I hadn't known about this.  It looks like just what I'm looking for.

Thanks.