Re: 4GL Reports to user defined file

Path: emory!europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!pitt!darth!investor.pgh.pa.us!rbp From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1992Jan31.135606.7009@investor.pgh.pa.us> Date: 31 Jan 92 13:56:06 GMT References: <1992Jan23.194151.21508@uwm.edu> Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA In article <1992Jan23.194151.21508@uwm.edu> peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon) writes: >I am running INFORMIX 4GL Version 1.10.03J/2.10.03J on >and AT&T 386WGS under AT&T SYS V Release 3.2.1 > >I would like to have my 4gl reports print out >to a file specified by the user. Not hard coded >like: > > OUTPUT TO "file" > >I want file to be whatever the user enters, within reason. >I have checked the 4GL manual I tried everything I could >think of, to no avail. Any ideas? You could do what we did when we were after dynamic forms. It is the same kind of problem. 4GL wants a specific form name and offers no way to feed it a variable. Build a small test program that outputs to a specific file. Examine the C code produced by the compiler and determine where the file name is specified. Change the pertinant code to a C function to which you pass the file name. Test it. Use the function call instead of the OUTPUT command. This works for forms; it should work for output. BTW, please do not ask me for specifics. I got the idea but it was implemented by a guy who works for me. I have asked him to prepare an explanation for the net, but I have no idea when he will have time. Unfortunately, it is fairly low priority. -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us 412-471-5320 venetia@investor.pgh.pa.us [NeXT Mail] !uunet.uu.net!pitt!investor!rbp [UUCP]