How to have some records print 3 forms and other records in the same batch print 4 forms?

Daniel Bauer onlinemgt at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 06:44:33 PDT 2008


I have an application that has been printing 3 forms for each  
selected record. At least thats what it looks like for all practical  
purposes. The form is actually 198 (66x3) lines and has been working  
perfectly. This form prints the first two forms on white paper and  
the third page on colored paper from another paper tray. Now however  
the requirements have changed and SOME records will need to print an  
additional form. I know I could extend the form to 264 lines using  
dummy fields, and blank them if the extra form is not needed but the  
form, as it now stands, has remove blank lines set to N. Blank lines  
are set to N because alignment on the other pages is critical and  
they already have fields that are blank at various times.
I need an old trick for this since we're talking filePro 4.8 and SCO  
Unix. It's my understanding that the form command doesn't work in  
output processing but I'm sure someone else has some sort of  
workaround for this problem. Thanks

Dan Bauer
dan at onlinemgt.com



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