At 07:34 PM 6/15/2005, Stephen Markson wrote:
Further investigation reveals that you want the ETXT option (report emulation). However, I can't get it to work. I tried Razzak's FTE example (see "Printing Report as Text File" at http://www.razzak.com/fte) and I get a zero byte file.
Stephen, I bet you are not using the latest pre-release Update 81. http://www.rbase.com/rbg7updates Using the latest pre-release update 81, if a user attempts to PRINT the report as Text File (OPTION TXT) without first having defined the Text File Setup in Report Designer, the program will return an -ERROR- message and not just write a zero length file. Report Designer | File | Print to Text File Setup ... Syntax: PRINT reportname OPTION TXT|FILENAME filename.txt|OPEN ON Example: CONNECT ConComp PRINT ColumnarReport OPTION TXT|FILENAME ColumnarReport.TXT|OPEN ON The same enhancement applies when printing the report as Text File using the Print to a File option from the Database Explorer. Database Explorer | Reports | Run Report | Print Target .. File | Type .. Text File Enjoy and make sure to have fun! Very Best R:egards, Razzak.
