Troy
Great explanation. Will give this a shot in about a week and a half. Thank You.. Jim Limburg --- Troy Sosamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is easy to do in DOS and a real pain in Windows. > > > Set up your 2 reports up so they are each 30 lines long instead of 60 lines. > Actually I think I would set the page length to 0 and physically make the > report 30 lines long. > Set the first report so it does not do a form feed after the report footer. > Be sure to remove initial carriage return on both reports. > > Put your output to a file, > print the first report, then the second report, > output back to the screen > output to the printer > type your file > output back to the screen > > If you need to print multiple rows on one report, and need information after > the rows, you will need to set the "report footer line" number in the report > to make the footer always land in the same place on the page. > > These things always take 5 times longer than they should by the time you get > everything just right. > > Troy Sosamon > > > ===== Original Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 3/21/02 7:44 am > >G-Day all > > > >Before I delve deep into finding out if this is possible, I > >thought I would post a quick question to keep from wasting > >too much time... > > > >I'm using latest RB65 Dos version w/patches... We are > >considering getting the type of perforated paper that > >would let us split an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet coming off a > >HP Desk jet printer into two sheets... > > > >I need to be able to print one report to one sheet and > >one report the second half of the sheet. > > > >What is the best method to do this? > > > >At this moment I haven't found out exactly what we needing > >to be printed, but it will likely be a Header / Detail / > >Footer type report. > > > >I have been told that the reports will be basically the same > >but have subtilties like... one report goes to bookkeeping, > >one to the plant floor stating on it that it has to be > >returned when parts are made and so on... > > > >What idea's, methods have been successful for this kind of > >need? > > > >Jim > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� > >http://movies.yahoo.com/ > >================================================ > >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > >================================================ > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > >================================================ > >TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > >http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
