Re: ACE Report Question #2

Max wrote: > > Thanks to all who offered advice on the first round. Yes, I do know > the > "wrap-an-ACE-report-in-a-shell" trick and have been using it for a > while. > > 2nd question - is there a way to put a page break control character > into > an ACE report? I think that this is ASCII 12 or ctrl-L. Yes, try: PRINT ASCII 12 :-) > I know of the SKIP TO TOP OF PAGE statement, but that works w/ the > PAGE > LENGTH statement in the OUTPUT section, no? > > Reason being is that different folks set different fonts on their > printers. Consequently, the output trails or lags and doesn't look > terribly neat. > > Thanks again on the last repsonses and thanks in advance on this one. But that is not the solution to YOUR problem. Simple set the top of page character in your OUTPUT section as follows: OUTPUT TOP OF PAGE "^L" where the CONTROL-L is two characters; a "^" and a "L". Hope that helps, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com FAQ http://www.iiug.org |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+