Re: Finishing Report without printing

On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Mike Aubury wrote: > The best solution is to print to a file. Unfortunatly you'll IMHO it's a solution but not the best. Create a global symbol in the shell like this PROC_PID=$$; export PROC_PID then in 4gl, DEFINE tmpfile CHAR(80) LET tmpfile = "/tmp/rep_", fgl_getenv("PROC_PID") and do whatever with this file. > probably need a unique file name. To get one - just create a > table with a serial column, insert a row and use the > sqlca.sqlerrd[2] to get the value generated, append this to > a base name, eg. "/tmp/rep_",sqlca.sqlerrd[2] using "<<<<<" > then delete from the table. > > This can then be printed, copied to another file, > shown to the screen or ignored ! And finally deleted. > (A nice touch as the report only needs to be run once, but > can be previewed before being printed.) > -- > Mike Aubury _\\?/_ > |O O| > +----------oOOO-\\_/-OOOo---------+---------------------------- > -+ > | Heisenberg may have been here | mike@aubury.demon.co.uk > | > +--------------------------------+---------------------------- > -+ > Hope this helps Byte byte! Mario R. Canto mcanto@unl.edu.ar