Re: bottom margin and page trailer

Ian Clark wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm not sure what the relationship is between the bottom margin and > page trailer. > The manual says that the bottom margin affects how close to the bottom > of the page Informix displays the page trailer. > > So, if my page length is 72 and my bottom margin is 5 ( wouldn't you > know it, that is what some other programmer has set them to in the > report I am due to hack! ) then on which line do print statements > appear within the page trailer? > > What confuses me is that the in the page trailer control block there > is a lot of print statements to perform and I don't kow how many I can > have before it goes off the end of the page. Count up from the bottom. With page length 72 and 5 line bottom margin if you have 2 lines of page trailer they start on line 65, 5 lines will start on line 62 (except on the last page if you also have a report trailer that goes below the page trailer). The trailer does not go off the bottom of the page, data is shifted to another page to make room for the trailer, unless the trailer is bigger than a page or the NEEDS clauses prevent the data from being shifted (ie NEEDS 65 and 10 lines of headers and trailers). Art S. Kagel