Re: FORM FEED IN REPORTS

In article <1gnr51INNa7d@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> yaron@ortarg.edu.ar (Yaron Zarfati) writes: >Hi, I need help on the behavior of the SKIP TO TOP OF FORM statement in >reports. > >When this statement is reached, informix fills the report with empty lines >until it reaches the number specified in the PAGE LENGTH statement. > >This slows down the printing, so what I would like to know is if does somebody >knows how to make informix to use the formfeed character ??? > -------- From the Informix 4GL 4.1 Supplement, Page S-48 You can specify the TOP OF PAGE statement within the OUTPUT section of a report. This statement specifies the character string that causes your to ecject a page. The TOP OF PAGE statement has the following syntax: TOP OF PAGE "char-string" *char-string* is a one or tw-character string that causes your printer to eject a page. On most printers, this string is "^L", the ASCII form feed characters. 4GL uses the first character of the string as the as the TOP OF PAGE character unless it is the ^ character. In this case, 4GL decodes the second character as a control character. etc, etc. This capability is not available in versions less than 4.1. >Thanks in advance. > >Yaron. > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > __ __ > (<>) (<>) E-mail: yaron@ortarg.edu.ar > * Yaron Zarfati > --- >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------