Re: PRTF Overflow

Hello Rick,

Simply relying on the overflow indicator fails when you require all lines in a 
group to be on 
the same page.  Your example makes assumptions about the page size.  If the 
page size is 
changed to 15 your code will allow the last group of 10 to span two pages which 
is exactly what 
the other appends are trying to avoid.

Using the file feedback area allows the program to determine the actual number 
of lines 
available on the page, and use the current line to determine whether the data 
to print will fit 
before the end of the page.  If so, print the block, if not, skip to a new page 
and print the 
block.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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//--- forwarded letter -------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 11:29:24 -0500
> From: rbrightman@amclog.com
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Reply-To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: PRTF Overflow

> just write to different formats, each having a different space number.
> Example, these 10 line will be together and then there will be a blank line.
> do            2
>      do           10
>      write       skip_1_line
>      enddo
> 
> write        skip_2_line
> enddo

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