printing to file

[Kenneth Brody]

On 11/4/2010 1:17 PM, scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:
>    Ken,
>
>    Okay, well the manual is a little confusing so I tried removing the
>    printer reset command, now my processing just says
>
>    Then: lookup....blah blah blah
>
>    Then: printer file "/tmp/output.txt"
>
>    What happens here is it doesn't capture the first part of the report, the
> description header across the top as what is defined
>    in the output, company name, etc, etc.
>    It does however capture the 2nd record of the 2 and the total line in
> /tmp/output.txt ??

Because you are probably executing the PRINTER FILE command for every 
record, causing only the last record to be in the file.

>    So I tried doing:
>
> @done  If:
>            Then:  printer file "/tmp/output.txt"
>
>    This didn't change anything..........
>
>    Why would /tmp/output.txt not capture the entire report??

Because this says "after the report is done, start sending the output to 
/tmp/output.txt".

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Kenneth Brody