G'day Ben, I would very quickly replace the digit removals with less debilitating but perhaps more painful penalties. Try reruns of "Prisoner" (a z grade Australian soap). Or late night (early morning) television.
I don't believe you can do as you did in DOS and have three reports print on one page. You probably have to get very inventive\creative and populate a temp table or something like that to get what you want. At 04:01 19/03/02 -0500, you wrote: >I'm trying to write my first report in R:Base 6.5++ for Windows. Here are a >few of the problems that I've run into. I'm listing the problems and then >what I've done to get around it for now. Can anyone suggest other possible >work arounds? > >Scenario: > >I am trying to print reports to perforated paper at 3 to a page. The report >template cycles between a few models to vary fonts and layout using a very >effective loop. The table in which the data resides has about 1500 rows and >is fairly straight forward. > >Problems: > >1) When the reports print to the laser printer using: >"print &reportvar where current = cur1" >each ends up on its own page although there in no change of output and all >footers and headers are deleted and there are no carriage returns at the >header or footer. How do I get these to share a page? > >2) On the same line: >"print &reportvar where current = cur1" >the report is taking 12 columns from the row to fill in many fields and 4 >report variables. Ironically, all of the report's variables print >flawlessly. Several of the straight forward column fields get mixed up so >the column #10 ends up where #8 should be and the fields that should contain >columns #10 and #11 are left empty. >See the work-around section for the kicker. > >3) What is the best beverage to keep you up past your bedtime? Select from >the following link: >http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/drinks.shtml > >4) I keep typing ls -al instead of dir at the R>. I'm back in UNIX mode, >any chance I can make use of my native skills after the conference? > >Work-Arounds > >1) I am printing to a stack of forms. When the job nears the end of the >stack, I separate the perforations and slide them into the pile and repeat >until all three are used up. Very manual, but I suppose I've got to get >paid for something physical, eh? > >2) I have substituted the following: >"print &REPORTVAR where RECID = .VRECID" >Everything comes out just fine. Of course, I declare RECID and fetch it as >VRECID so that it should be the equivalent as the cursor, but it doesn't >give me a strange result. > >3) I took up smoking cigars, so the midnight draw on a Macanudo or Acid >wakes me up real nice, but it is kind of expensive. > >4) I started cutting off fingers at each nuckle when I started to type "ls" >(oops, just lost another one). Generally, it is a great motivator. >Otherwise, I move over to my RedHat 7.2 system and play with DNS, APACHE, >PHP, and SAMBA. > >Thanks for any help in advance and see you in PA. Warmest regards, Tom Grimshaw coy: Just For You Software tel: 612 9552 3311 fax: 612 9566 2164 mobile: 0414 675 903 post: PO Box 470 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia street: 3/66 Wentworth Park Rd Glebe NSW 2037 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.just4usoftware.com.au This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be privileged. If you have received this email inadvertently or you are not the intended recipient, you may not disseminate, distribute, copy or in any way rely on it. Further, you should notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your computer. Whilst we have taken precautions to alert us to the presence of computer viruses, we cannot guarantee that this email and any files transmitted with it are free from such viruses. ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
