John R. Sowden wrote:
FP/DOS lives for a few more years,
I found a use for FPDOS for a part of my app written in VFP9. I have
certain places where it is useful to be able to view and
invoice/delivery note whilst doing something else. If you create a text
only version of the invoice and put in a memo it is very quick and easy
to bring it up in a window without having to load an external viewer or
a preview window. I created the report layout in FPDOS and you can then
run it TO FILE <atextfile.txt> then append memo to save it. As long as
you don't edit the layout with FPwindows or VFP it will only have DOS
records in so produces a nice clean text file. This is not the version
that is printed, just a quick view version.
The memos are not that big either. Just checked and 52000 memos gives
an FPT size of only 88mb.
Peter
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