Re: START REPORT TO PIPE

Quoting John Baker, Lex-Blue Grass Army Depot... > > 1) There is a known bug with 4GL version 4.00 involving the output of a > report routine to the MORE command (you get double spacing). If you > try coding "START REPORT rpt_name TO PIPE more", the output will be all > messed up. This is bug #3825. Has anyone coded a workaround for this? > Have you tried something like this... START REPORT rpt_name TO "/tmp/rpt_name.out" .... FINISH REPORT RUN "more /tmp/rpt_name.out" > 2) I need to send the output of a report to the user's printer slaved off > his terminal. I've coded a shell script that turns on the appropriate > terminal modes for printing and displays the contents of the file (using > the cat command) which ends up going to the printer. It works just fine > when run from the command prompt; however when I try sending the report > to this shell script by coding in my 4GL program START REPORT rpt_name > TO PIPE "script_name", the .4ge program is terminated and the prompt is > returned. No core is dumped. The program is simply terminated. Is this > related to the bug above and does anyone have a workaround for it? > We had the same problem with a 386 machine running SCO unix. Because of the time crunch and lack of man power we ran an extra rs232 line to the printer. I'd be interested in hearing how you solve this problem if you do. DAS -- David A. Snyder @ Snide Inc. - Folcroft, PA Current Release is db4glgen-3.3 UUCP: ..!uunet!das13!dave INTERNET: Dave.Snyder@snide.com