Re: Screen printing with control and p

In article <791044263snz@boothbc.demon.co.uk>, paul@boothbc.demon.co.uk (paul sellars) wrote: > In 4GL control and p will output the screen contents to the file > named in the environment variable DBSCREENOUT. > Does anyone know of a way to pipe the output to a script file > or call the control and p function from 4GL ? > Our users want to be able to use a single key stroke to print a screen > immediately. Thanks in advance for any help. I think I can say with some degree of certainty that everybody's users want to be able to do this. We do it via a couple of menu options. 1. Turn on screen dump facility (this sets DBSCREENOUT=screen.out) 2. Run application program & press ^P (putting screenful(s) into screen.out) 3. Turn off screen dump facility (prints screen.out, deletes screen.out, and unsets DBSCREENOUT) If you'd like to view a comprehensive list of suggested modifications of Informix-4GL take a look at kcbbs.gen.nz:/informix/i4glmods.txt.Z. This is the document Jonathan Leffler compiled in early 1993. It's a shame that Informix aren't putting more resource into tidying up some of the irritating omissions in 4GL, now that we're in early 1995. --------------------------------------,------------------------------------- Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ Quanta Systems, Auckland, New Zealand | kcbbs.gen.nz:/informix/* | mathcs.emory.edu:/pub/informix/faq/* +64 9 377-4473 (work) 266-6011 (home) | http://www.garpac.com/informix.html