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From: markj@informix.com (Mark Jeske(Chicago Consultan)t)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix Reporting ...
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.214140.12395@informix.com>
Date: 28 Sep 90 21:41:40 GMT
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In article <1990Sep25.190213.1176@balr.com> segel@balr.UUCP (Michael Segel) writes:
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>
>Sorry 'bout that. What I wanted to ask was a work around
>to doing reports in 4GL with indeterminate page lengths.
>In 4GL, you must specify the page length for the printer, 
>so Informix can do all the neat header/trailer and page handling.
>However for my application I did not know the page size and lenght
>(Can vary for each font, and I don't want to recompile my report
> and program each time.) 
>
>
>So I printed the report to a file, and after I was done, I 
>printed the file to the printer. To get a new page, I printed a
>file with only a "^L" in it. (Informix will not allow for control
>characters to be printed).

Yes, it does.  You can use the ascii statment to print control
characters.

>
>The only problem with this, is that Informix will automatically 
>assume a page length (66 I think) and will force lines when it
>thinks it is at the end of a page. 
>	My solution to this was to set the PAGE LENGTH to some large
>number like 9000, and to change the ESQL/C code generated to NOT
>add blank lines. The change was to stop Informix from trying to
>print 8000 or so Blank lines :-) This worked, however I seem 
>to remember a simpler solution.

You might want to try page length 1.


Mark jeske (Informix consulting)
markj@infmx.com