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

[Daniel Bauer]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 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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Yes should have been more clear this is dreport. And no the forms are  
not identical. Then new 4th page is different from the first 3 pages,  
and the first 3 pages have minor differences. I'm only familiar with  
using dclerk to print forms while updated or adding records. Can it  
be used in a batch mode?

Dan