Re: I would like to kwow how to print a file (PCL, Postscript, ...

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Richard Spitz wrote: > Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > Juan Manuel Hernandez del Olmo wrote: > > > I would like to kwow how to print a file (PCL, Postscript, ... ) > > > inside the "Page Header" section of a Report. > > > > There is no way to do it. > [ very sensible explanation of why not deleted ] > > Maybe there is a way to do it after all. In the IIUG software archive, > there is a file called "rpt_blob.Z" that claims to include a method > of doing just that. It was contributed by Marco Greco. > > I haven't yet verified that it actually works, but I'll try it as soon as > I find the time. Maybe that is what Juan Manuel... is looking for. Hmmm...I hadn't noticed that Marco's code had a technique for dealing with this. There's no obvious reason why it won't work, but it is of course unsupported and not a pure I4GL solution (any more than the dynamic report configuration software is a pure I4GL solution). Marco's observation that the output file stream in the report control structure does not always point where you think it should is correct; that's why I4GL no longer allows a RETURN statement in the body of a report. If you return from a page header, you could conceivably end up with a report that was neither open (so you could not do OUTPUT TO REPORT or FINISH REPORT) nor closed (so you could not do START REPORT). Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN Informix IDN for D4GL & Linux -- http://www.informix.com/idn