[RBASE-L] - Re: RBSYSTEM ??!!

[Castanaro, Bob]

Yup.  There was a great piece of code in the "Exchange" in the early 90s that described how to make snaking columns out of variables   I was able to add a little program that captured codes at the LPT port that allowed for bar codes!  So I was able to print 2 or 3 column snaking column charge forms with bar codes.  Unfortunately all this took several days to design and troubleshoot, and to make sure you had enough lines on the page and so on. and if your printer changed it was a nightmare. Now I can do the same thing in an hour or so and it looks so much better with the different font capabilities. Bob C From: rbase-l@rbase.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Stephen Wills Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 4:22 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: RBSYSTEM ??!! Werent' we smart back then?   Anybody (BillD, you're excluded fm answering this one) remember snaking columns in reports being used to print 3-up labels?   Older than he looks, Steve in Memphis ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Fleming To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:48 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: RBSYSTEM ??!! Thanks Bill/Karen, Just a short note here as to what RBase was like back in 1986! I can't believe what we had to go through to build a report with strings of escape codes to handle landscape, condensed, legal, lines per inch and page, etal. But, remember the first attempts of building reports with the first RBase for Windows versions? And now, what a nightmare trying to do something/anything "the good old way". The crises? All their wide carriage dot matrix printers finally died. Thanks RBTI for 7.x (and beyond). ... At 10:04 AM 2/13/2006, you wrote: Dennis, I think the problem had to do with the first page:  If you didn't "remove initial CR/LF" for the top of the new report, it actually started on line 2, and then counted to 60, which was one too many. Bill On 2/13/2006 at 9:53 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The trick was to make the lines per page one less than what it > should be.  It was always 59 for portrait, and I think it was 42 > or 44 for landscape. > > Karen Dennis Fleming IISCO http://www.TheBestCMMS.com Phone: 570 775-7593 Mobile: 570 351-5290