RE: Need a report that outputs to a file
^J - 0x0a - LF
^M - 0x0d - CR
0x0d 0x0a is more usual than 0x0a 0x0d.
Are you generating this in UNIX or (son of) DOS?
How are you transporting the file?
UNIX will automatically generate the ^J, and FTP will correct for ASCII
transfers to DOS - but not necessarily in the order you suggest.
Other environments *may* require a CHAR(1) or CHAR(2) as the last element of
your record.
If you have to force the order of your record trailers then use
LET Line_sep = ASCII( 10 ), ASCII( 13 )
PRINT Line_sep;
Otherwise carry on as OC suggests.
-----Original Message-----
From: Obnoxio The Clown [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com]
Sent: 08 December 2000 21:52
To: aaron_gatzke@idwear.com; informix-list@iiug.org
Subject: Re: Need a report that outputs to a file
From: "Aaron Gatzke" <aaron_gatzke@idwear.com>
>
>I need to create a report that outputs to a file.
>No heading info is required.
>Each record will be 400 characters long and terminated by appending ^J and
>^M.
>The report will be a few hundred lines long and cannot contain page breaks.
>
>Can this be done in Classic 4gl without resorting to C function calls?
Of course, just set top and bottom margins to 0 and your page length to 1.
Sounds almost like you could do that with dbaccess...
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