Report underline

Richard Kreiss rkreiss at verizon.net
Wed Aug 20 09:37:18 PDT 2014


That's my question. 

Richard
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> On Aug 20, 2014, at 11:29 AM, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/20/2014 11:04 AM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>> Ken,
>> 
>> I checked for the *
>> 
>> That code is beyond the form width which is 96. Printing with a 12 pitch font.
> 
> I don't understand.  How is a print code there, but "beyond the form width"?
> 
>> Using a standard Jim Asman print table.
>> 
>> As I indicated, I expanded the width to 255 and that code did not appear. Returned to 96 an printed the report with the same code appearing.
>> 
>> I may have to try coping this report or recreating it to see if I can get rid of the stray print code.
> 
> Is it there or not?  Making a copy will copy all print codes, "stray" or otherwise.
> 
>> 
>> Richard
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On Aug 20, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 8/20/2014 10:16 AM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>>>> I ran into an odd problem with a report for one of my clients.
>>>> 
>>>> Width 96
>>>> 
>>>> The last line of the header has at the start - (5) underline on and at the end (6) underline off.
>>>> 
>>>> Whenever he ran this report after the first record everything was underlined.  I checked for a stray (5) underline on and could not find one.
>>>> 
>>>> I finally printed the report to file and found the stray (5) underline on - see below after Contact is underline off and beyond that is underline on.
>>>> 
>>>> &d@                                      LEVY, GOLDBERG & STETTNER                    Page: 2
>>>>          Run Date:Aug 20, 2014           Vendor Listing
>>>> 
>>>>                                   (s3B &d3D   10  DRESSES & SUITS          &d@ (s0B
>>>>                                                            Phone #
>>>> &d3D     Vendor                    Address                      FAX #         R    Contact         &d@                                            &d3D
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Problem is that underline on cannot be found or seen on the output.  I even set the report width to 255 and it is  not there.
>>>> 
>>>> I added in an (6) underline off at the start of each record to insure the underline is off.
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone seen this type of problem or how this can happen?
>>> 
>>> Unless there is a field on the format which contains that escape sequence, then it's there on the format itself.  (Or there is another print code which includes that sequence, either directly or indirectly.)
>>> 
>>> Look for the "*" indicator on the ruler to see where print codes are for each line.
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody


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