Re: 132 column report to screen

Ken McCoy writes:- > Hello, all... > > How is everyone (anyone) handling 132 column reports that display on > screen. > > When you start one of these report to screen, it wraps at 80 columns > and makes the report unreadable. > > Is there any way to switch the terminal (VT100) into 132 mode from > inside a 4GL, then reset back to 80 column mode after the report is > displayed? > > As always, many thanks in advance!! > > -- > Ken McCoy > Arkansas Public School Computer Network The answer is to study the VT100 manuals. There is indeed a way to swirch the vt100 into 132 column mode and back again. It's an ASCII sequence which you could output in a first page header and on last row. I don't know the sequence off-hand (I for one do not live/eat/breathe HEX) but I have certainly done it in the past. BTW - if you are using vt100 emulators they don't always support this feature! Malcolm Weallans Online Database Consultancy Phone 01628-72154 Fax 01628-37463 CIX - onlinedbc