Re: Handling changing page lengths / 4GL reports

In article <1992Apr19.062644.8157@informix.com> aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic) writes: >In article <1992Apr17.204123.10970@mips.mitek.com> jmaddox@dbaix.oc.com (John Maddox) writes: >>The trouble is that Informix seems to want to calculate the number >>of lines remaining and print blank lines to get to TOF instead >>of issuing one formfeed (ascii 12) >> >>Email, please? Thanks.... >>John Maddox (jmaddox@dbaix.oc.com) * OpenConnect Systems * Tel: 214-308-0476 > >Just FYI for others facing this dilemma: there is a new feature in 4.1 4GL >that allows you to specify a character to use for page ejects and avoid >blank line padding completely. Add a TOP OF PAGE "<char>" to your [OUTPUT] >section. See Page S-48 in the 4GL 4.1 Supplement for details. This will be great, when I can get beyond I-4GL Version 1.10.03D, but what I have been doing up to now (UNIX) is to set page length for the smallest printer page size (i.e., 60), and run all output through "pr -ftl60" either with a "TO PIPE ..." or separately after a "TO FILE ...". -- Paul S. Sawyer - University of New Hampshire CIS - paul@unhtel.unh.edu Telecommunications and Network Services - VOX: +1 603 862 3262 Durham, New Hampshire 03824-3523 - FAX: +1 603 862 2030