Mike - I agree - in fact we did just that for some of our DOS to R:BASE 7.x conversions. Using a series of Declare Cursors, SET VARIABLES and WRITE statements we create some very complex extract files.
And the nice part about it is that we can now document each of the variables or sections of code - which was not an option in R:BASE reports. (Although with 7.5, we could now document sections of reports using EEPs.) But with that said, a report using breakpoints can be a quicker set up than accomplishing the same thing programmatically. Sami -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MikeB Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 3:30 PM To: RBG7-L Mailing List Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: Text Dump Issues I cannot envision wherein structured textual output cannot be created in code, along with embedment of tags to format the output, without the reliance upon the report engine. ISTM it should be pretty straight forward using Select and Write statements. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas J Hawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 1:46 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: Text Dump Issues > ** Reply to message from "Gunnar Ekblad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on > Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:24:44 +0200 > >> Have you ever considerd Cheeting? > > I am beginning to think that falling back to RB6.1 DOS (I don't have a RB7 > DOS license) is the way to go, at least until the output capabilities of > RBG7 are improved. > > I need to apply formatting tags to the output, so Unload as ASCII doesn't > work for me. > > Tom Hawley > New York > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
