I am using: REPORT FORM (lcFrxxNameOpen) TO FILE (lcASCIIFileName) ASCII NOCONSOLE NOWAIT NODIALOG
because I need an ascii machine readable file (that looks nice and can be printed on a dot matrix printer). This is a really strange animal. Reference Tamar Ganor's comments in the Hacker's guide to VFP 6.0. When using this you need to set two system variables: _ASCIIROWS and _ASCIICOLS. Cols works as you would expect, it sets the number of columns across the page. So 80 will usually create a standard portrait page. (8.5 X 11) _asciirows is crazy. It sets the space between rows (note this is an ascii file?????????) you obviously cannot set the space between lines. You either have no space or you have a line or you have 2 lines, etc. This has been this way since VFP 3.0. This is the only thing I have ever found in VFP that I think is totally stupid. I can see no sense at all for this. I finally set it to 33 in order to get a 'page' (joke - you have to try it to see what I mean) with no blank lines. Oh yes, there is one more somewhat stupid thing. If you use the [PLAIN] keyword you get a page with no headers as promised (except you don't even get a header on the 1st page as promised), however, you get blank lines where the header should be. This is not totally stupid since when you get headers they are messed up. I figure that it was a lot of trouble and M$ did not have the money or resources to make it work correctly. I am sure there were some programmers who would like to tackle this problem, but the lawyers and sales types decided that no one needs to print on a dot matrix anymore so why not just turn out some crap and say screw the customer. This is a problem for me because my clients are 'real people'. They are not programmers. They think that we are just too lazy (or something like that) since we don't have any other ridiculous nonsense in our program. We don't have a monopoly so we can't say screw the customer. It seems our only solution is to hand code something. Has anyone worked out a good solution for this? _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
