I agree -- printing to a report is one of the hardest things to "get right". You almost have to design a report specifically to print to a file, with lots of trial and error. Although I have printed a report to an RTF with the ease of editing on, and I was able to edit it with only slightly more effort than editing a regular .doc file.
Don't know how you might be incorporating DOS, but remember that from within 7.6 you can Launch the rbdos session, passing in the name of a program to run to create the .txt file. Then launch that .txt from within 7.6. The user might not even see it happening ... Karen > Yes I tried that. > > It sounds crazy. The report works great in 4.5 bit in 7.6 the data > arrives incomplete, some data omitted and some data out of order. > > I think I will have to revert back to 4.5. Keeping two data bases up > todate is a little cumbersome. > > Thanks for your suggestion. > > Gary > > >
