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From: awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help w/appending files
Summary: SET PRINTER TO FILE <filename>
Message-ID: <109@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 89 05:24:18 GMT
References: <1552@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Organization: Ashton Tate Devlopment Center Glendale, Calif.
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In article <1552@cod.NOSC.MIL>, baird@cod.NOSC.MIL (John M. Baird) writes:
> From article <8906091823.AA06940@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>, by cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz):
> > 
> > Is there a way to force a file with a filename that already exists to
> > append itself to the end of the previous file rather than overwrite the
> > old one?
> Why not just redirect the DBase printer output to a file, collecting it there
> until you have everything you want, and then printing it?  You can use a
> program called LPTX to do that, and it will let you append to the redirected

Many people are familiar with dBASE III Plus and assume that we didn't 
improve many aspects of the language for dBASE IV.  But we did.  In addition
to the SET ALTERNATE TO...ADDITIVE change mentioned earlier, we also now
support SET PRINTER TO FILE <filename>.  If there's something you need to
do and dBASE IV can't do it for you, I'd like to hear about it :-).

/alastair/

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