Bill, Having in the past upgraded from v4.5++ for Dos to v7.1 for DOS I can state that the move is relatively painless. One major advantage of the upgrade to v7.5 for DOS is you get the RStyle program. This is a great program for vierfying your code. After upgrading to v7.5 for DOS you can do a parallel upgrade to the Windows version. That is you can run both DOS and Windows versions against the same database.
If you are using v4.5++ variable forms and are upgrading to v7.5 for DOS feel free to contact me for tips on how to do that conversion. Jim Bentley American Celiac Society 1-504-737-3293 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill: Are you going to use the DOS or Windows upgrade? If you stay in DOS, I believe the "old" way of doing this will still work (someone can correct me, I don't have anyone on new DOS version). If you plan on going to windows, you can no longer printer multiple reports on one page, unless you use the Pagemode commands. It's been this way since the first 5.x RBase windows version, and is because of Windows automatically kicking a page out after every print. But in version 7.5 they introduced the concept of SubReports (which is one report printed inside another). It might take some work to get the structure figured out, but this might work for you. You could also try printing the individual reports to a .txt file and then just printing the .txt file to the printer. Karen Ok I ordered the upgrade offer but while I'm waiting to try it out, I'm concerned about what Karen writes below. I have several reports that I print to the same piece of paper by not allowing a form feed after each one 'til the last one. Will that method be impossible or nearly so with the upgrade? I'm now using 4.5++ Thanks bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duncan: Probably the biggest code "conversion" you'll find you have to do is when you are printing reports. You currently go to a printer using: OUTPUT PRINTER PRINT report OUTPUT SCREEN 7.x will ignore the "output printer" command and instead print the report to the screen. However, from the screen you can choose to then go to the printer (or a PDF file, etc.). This is the way that most programmers have decided to program. But if you have a report that HAS to go to the printer immediately, you would have to change your code to: PRINT report OPTION PRINTER Karen Jim Bentley American Celiac Society [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 1-504-737-3293 --------------------------------- Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains.
