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Regards,
Stephen Markson
ForenSys The Forensic Systems Group
www.ForenSys.ca
416 512 6950
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas J
> Hawley
> Sent: June 12, 2005 5:10 PM
> To: RBG7-L Mailing List
> Subject: [RBG7-L] - Text Dump Issues
>
> I need to dump certain contents of a database in plain ascii format, and
apply
> formatting tags to it. The dump file is then tweaked a bit in a text
editor,
> and loaded into Adobe FrameMaker for final production. This could be
easily
> accomplished in RB DOS with simple reports, but I'm finding that it
doesn't
> work so well in RB 7.81 where the reports have a graphical aspect that
gets in
> the way.
>
> The problems:
>
> 1. Blank lines appear in the dump at seemingly random places
>
> 2. Some data is clipped (e.g., "John Smith" might appear
> as " ith"), again in seemingly random places
>
> 3. Occasionally an entire line will be dropped entirely
>
> 4. Occasionally the dump will be corrupted in places
>
> My dump report uses only a report header, a break header, and a detail
section.
> Here's the scheme:
>
> RH Label
> BH Label (Formatting tag A)
> BH DB Text
> D Label (Formatting tag B)
> D DB Text
> D DB Text
> D DB Text
> D Variable Label (some concatenated DB Text)
>
> It seems that by allowing plenty of vertical white space between the five
lines
> in the detail section, I can eliminate the clipping, dropping and
corruption.
> However, this increases the number of random blank lines. And I'm left
feeling
> uncomfortable with the integrity of the output.
>
> I'm using the following command to print the report:
>
> PRI D05_GEO where DOD is null +
> order by zip_5, lastnam, firstnam, adr1 +
> OPTION TXT +
> |FILENAME E:\ORCIS_PR\GEO_DUMP.DMP +
> |OPEN ON
>
> (I notice that when I print to a file, the file does not contain page
breaks,
> although the progress dialog is counting pages. There doesn't seem to be
any
> way (or perhaps any need?) to set a continuous length file. I've got the
> margins set to 0 and that seems to work OK.)
>
> Surely there must be some way for RB to just spit out clean, simple and
> error-free tagged ascii text the way it used to. Am I missing something?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Tom Hawley
> New York
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
