Re: 4GL Reports to user defined file

Posted in 1992

Walt Hultgren {rmy} — Sat, 1 Feb 92 03:31:08 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Path: emory!europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!pitt!darth!investor.pgh.pa.us!rbp From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1992Jan31.140025.7150@investor.pgh.pa.us> Date: 31 Jan 92 14:00:25 GMT References: <1992Jan23.194151.21508@uwm.edu> <1992Jan31.135606.7009@investor.pgh.pa.us> Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA In article <1992Jan31.135606.7009@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes: >In article <1992Jan23.194151.21508@uwm.edu> peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon) writes: >>I am running INFORMIX 4GL Version 1.10.03J/2.10.03J on >>and AT&T 386WGS under AT&T SYS V Release 3.2.1 >> >>I would like to have my 4gl reports print out >>to a file specified by the user. Not hard coded >>like: >> >> OUTPUT TO "file" >> >>I want file to be whatever the user enters, within reason. >>I have checked the 4GL manual I tried everything I could >>think of, to no avail. Any ideas? > >You could do what we did when we were after dynamic forms. It is the >same kind of problem. 4GL wants a specific form name and offers no way >to feed it a variable. Oops! I posted before reading the other responses. Apparently output is not like forms and can be done dynamically. Sorry. -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us 412-471-5320 venetia@investor.pgh.pa.us [NeXT Mail] !uunet.uu.net!pitt!investor!rbp [UUCP]