I found that when I converted from DOS to Windows many of the fields in the report translated with the wrong justification, i.e. text would translate right justified, currency left justified, etc. Also, many times the text fields would translate with a border where the original report did not have one. I have tried every setting to no avail. I submitted to RDCC as a bug and the status is "verified/no plans to include." If your DOS report uses the compressed and landscape text option where you can fit app. 160+ columns in a regular size page it will translate spread over app. 16 in. (regardless of what is your default font size in Windows reports), and you will have to relocate the columns. So be ready to manually correct the location, justification as well as other display properties. I hope that you do not have too many reports to convert, I had to convert over 80 reports and it took a lot of time. If you also have to translate forms, basically all that you can expect is the field name and the relative location, text tends to translate as long strings that will need to be split up; because of the "look and feel" of Windows vis-�-vis DOS, you will want to redesign your forms anyway. I know this is not much help, but at least you will stop running in circles.
Javier Valencia, PE President Valencia Technology Group, L.L.C. 14315 S. Twilight Ln., Suite #14 Olathe, KS 66062-4571 (913)829-0888 (913)649-2904 FAX -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bernard Lis Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: convert from dos to win 6.5++ Currency and integer numbers in reports and forms come out left justified. Am I not setting something correctly? Bernie Lis Megabytes, Inc. ================================================ 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/
