Printing to a file

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Wed Sep 8 08:07:32 PDT 2004


John Esak wrote:
[...]
> If the end result is to get this output into Excel, could you just export
> the data from filePro directly into an Excel table... and let Excel handle
> the different font style you want?  Rick, my colleague here, uses SYLK files
> to get stuff nicely into Excel.  I used to use these export files all the
> time in Multiplan years ago... my bet is JPR still does this. :-)  In any
> case, the syntax is:
> 
> then: export MULTI myexcelfilename=c:\wherever-you-want-the-file
> then: myexcelfilename(1)=13;  myexcelfilename(2)=31; myexcelfilename(3)=14
> ...
> then: end
[...]

Another method, if going to a word processor, is to use EXPORT ASCII and
use tabs as field delimiters (f=\t).  Many word processors will import
tab-delimited text files into columns.

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