Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!julian!uwovax!boris
From: BORIS@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: dBASE III Plus and LABELS
Message-ID: <2994@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 19 Jul 89 17:47:11 GMT
Organization: CCS, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada
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Using dBASE III Plus, I have written a menu driven application.  One of the
options is to produce mailing labels.  

Although the label forms provided did not fit in one of the provided options
using CREATE/MODIFY LABEL, I was able to make an appropriate *.lbl file.

When the labels are printed using the following command
        LABEL FORM firm TO PRINT  (where firm = firm.lbl)
the labels are printed.  However, each of the labels also scrolls across the
screen.   I was unable to find a way to stop this screen scrolling.

Has anybody successfully stopped the screen output in this situation???

I  initially thought that I could write a simple report program modelled after
the example on page p12-17 of the manual (I have used this successfully before).
I encountered difficulties in that one label would be printed and then the
printer would try to skip to the top of the next page.  Is the page length
the length of one label or is it the length between perforations.  I thought
that I could effectively "turn paging off" by incrementing the line counter
indefinitely but this didn't seem to work either.

Any suggestions, directions, etc. would be greatfully appreciated.