I guess the point to be made is "sometimes" it is best to forge ahead using the brute force method of controlling everything via code rather than spend / waste time trying to make something do what it was (probably) never intended / envisioned doing.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sami Aaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: Text Dump Issues > 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] >> >
