Re: 4GL Information

> I am currently evaluating Informix 4GL for use on a particular > project. We want to produce feeds from our informix database to several > external systems. In order to do this, we need to be able to produce > 'flat files' in specific formats. How can I create text files with 4GL? > I was able to do it using the reporting feature and specifying 'output to > 'stuff.dat' or something like that. My problem is that the data in t > file needs to have a different format from line to line. For exampl > there is a header record, followed by a number of transactions. Ea > transaction could be as few as one or as many as five lines in the file. > These lines have different formats. Can 4GL do this? How? > Thanks, > -Jeff > > -- > > Jeffrey A. Schwartz > fschwaj@iia.org > Use the BEFORE / AFTER GROUP OF facility in the report writer. akent@cix.compulink.co.uk (Andy Kent) -------------------------------------