This brings up a really handy technique for doing things like this, where you
want something special but will have to remove the code when done. It is too
easy to forget and trip over it later.
IF (CVAL('NAME')) = 'unusualandunique' then
--DO THE SPECIAL THING
ENDIF
At the R> SET NAME unusualandunique
Now run the code.
If you forget to remove the extra code, no one will ever trip over it.
Dennis McGrath
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gray, Damon
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:30 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Printing Issue - SOLVED!!
Man, this is NUTS!! Someone had hard coded in the W2.ASC to print all W2s
where LName < "phillips"
Augh!!!
There was probably some issue last year that caused them to need to restart the
run or something, so my predecessor's predecessor, hard coded a value in
there...
Anyway, as always, thanks to everyone on this list. You're all always so
helpful!
- damon
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Bentley
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:22 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Printing Issue
Are their non-standard characters in any fields of that particular record?
Jim Bentley
American Celiac Society
[email protected]
tel: 1-504-737-3293
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From: "Gray, Damon" <[email protected]>
To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:17:13 AM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Printing Issue
We are printing W2 forms for about 650 employees. R:Base 6.5++ is printing
about 2/3 of them, and stopping on a specific name. Thinking it may be a print
buffer issue, we tried a beefier printer. Stopped on exactly the same name.
Similarly, we tried printing from a different machine. Exact same result.
Thinking this may be a workaround, I removed all rows from the temporary table
down to the "Ps" which included the last employee printed and the two above
him, leaving us with about 150 or so rows and re-ran the print job. It printed
three W2s; the last employee printed and the two above him.
Why won't these W2s print? I don't even know where to begin investigating this.
Damon J. Gray
Anvil Corporation Business Services
(360) 937-0770
