varibles in output section ace reports

Hi u all, In the output section of an ace report we defined the following output section: output report to "/tmp/npdump" end Our question is as follows: is there a possibility to create an output section to variable like "$home/npdump"? So al output will be dumped in the user's home directory?? Thanks for all suggestions Arthur @ arjo

output to pipe "cat > $HOME/npdump" should work. Wolfgang Arthur Gommel wrote > > Hi u all, > > In the output section of an ace report we defined the following output > section: > > output report to "/tmp/npdump" > end > > Our question is as follows: > > is there a possibility to create an output section to variable like > "$home/npdump"? > So al output will be dumped in the user's home directory?? > > Thanks for all suggestions > > Arthur @ arjo -- ******************************************************************************* * Any opinions written in this e-mail are my own. They may not correspond to * * those of my company. * ******************************************************************************* * Wolfgang Zager Berghauser Str. 104 * * BAB Data-Systems GmbH D-42349 Wuppertal * * Abt. Programmierung Tel. : +49 202 479870 * * Fax : +49 202 470035 * * E-Mail: zager@gmx.de * *******************************************************************************

ACE will write to the current directory if no path is specified. If your users are in their home directories when they run the report, report to "npdump" should put the output file in their home. "Arthur Gommel" <argo.margo@wxs.nl> wrote in message news:9120q4$1kj$1@nereid.worldonline.nl... > Hi u all, > > In the output section of an ace report we defined the following output > section: > > output report to "/tmp/npdump" > end > > Our question is as follows: > > is there a possibility to create an output section to variable like > "$home/npdump"? > So al output will be dumped in the user's home directory?? > > Thanks for all suggestions > > Arthur @ arjo > >