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

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Daniel Bauer (Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:44:33 -0400):

> 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

I am assuming that this is *report, and not *clerk?

Are the forms identical?  Why not just have one 66-line form, and use
the PRINT command to print it 3 or 4 times?

Remove unwanted blank lines won't help you, since the form will still
be the specified length, regardless of the contents being pushed up or
not.

Could you print the forms using *clerk instead of *report?  Then you
could use FORM/FORMM to print whatever you needed.

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