Karen, Just ask yourself, how many other DBMS will let your work, migrate and be very PRODUCTIVE using cross-platform capabilities of the Windows and DOS versions at the same time?
Only R:BASE! We simply do not realize what we have until we step back and take a look at it. Enjoy the POWER and FLEXIBILITY of R:BASE! The BEST is yet to come ... Very Best Regards, Razzak. At 11:27 AM 2/12/2003 -0800, Brad Davidson wrote:
.... Just to jump on the wagon, heartily concur in this method of DOS to Windows
reporting. As we have a plethora of DOS reports now being converted via this
method to take advantage of Windows Rbase 6.5++ and eventually ver. 7.0, we find
this the best course in efficiency.
Emmitt Dove wrote:
> If you are running Windows R:Base, the best thing I've found is to do is this:
>
> 1. Leave all your code in place, but instead of fooling around
> with headers, footers, etc., and writing to the file, create a temporary
> table and insert rows to that table containing the data (detail) lines of
> the report.
> 2. Now build a Windows report based on the temporary table with
> all the formatting your heart desires.
>
> This solution retains the logic in your PAGEMODE report while taking
> advantage of the Windows formatting.
