Re: 4GL Reports to user defined file

Path: emory!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!gossip.pyramid.com!pyramid!infmx!aland From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Summary: do it in START REPORT Message-ID: <1992Jan24.030339.19777@informix.com> Date: 24 Jan 92 03:03:39 GMT References: <1992Jan23.194151.21508@uwm.edu> Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News) Organization: International Brotherhood of Geeks, Local 619 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" Typo: ^ REPORT >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? Just delete the REPORT TO "filename" from the REPORT body and add the TO clause to your START REPORT statement, e.g. LET charvar = "file" or PROMPT "blah" FOR charvar or pass it as a parameter or ... START REPORT rptname TO charvar Report output will be written to the file name contained in charvar. You can do the same with reporting to a pipe (START REPORT TO PIPE charvar). Yes, even in .03. >Thanks >Peter > >P.S. >Yes I know Informix release 4.0 is out, but I just have >not had the time to install it. And now is not the time. Why bother? 4.1 is shipping for the 6386; go straight to 4.1! >Peter J. Diaz de Leon ARPA: peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu >Emergency Management Systems "Its who we are, its what we do." >330 East Kilbourn Avenue, Suite 730 -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland "In the cafeteria just after lunch, (well, not *just* after, more like *during* lunch, about 12:28; say 12:30, give or take a few minutes), I leaned back in my chair (it was one of those aluminum chairs, good strength-to-weight, like titanium but not quite; but then of course titanium would be a bit of an overkill). Anyway, I heard one of the girls talking about how boring she thought engineers could be."