RE: Re: page n of x

Why is it that when explaining how there are 50 lines per page and total
pages equals total records divided by lines per page, no one has taken
subtotals or level break behavior into account?  If you print subtotals,
they also take up space on the printed page.  The arithmetic to calculate
the number of pages including subtotals and unusual behavior at level breaks
such as skip to top of form makes this calculation rather challenging.  If
you run the report first just to get the total page count, the data could
change during the first run and the second run and make the total number of
pages captured from the first run wrong.  There are only two ways to do this

a. the post-processing technique someone described with the tildes ~~~~~
always gives the right answer.

b. you can compute a number in advance then print "page X of roughly Y
pages"

Richard Jackson
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of oludare@ix.netcom.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 9:08 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Re: page n of x


Create a field next to page number, create a work file similar to your
printer file. Keep a counter while creating workfile then write out to
printer file knowing already how many pages you have to  write.

Dare

RPG400-L@midrange.com wrote:
> AFAIK there is no keyword.

Easy enough though, you must know the total number of records to be printed
and just do the maths based on pre-determined lines per page.

Simple calc: 400 records to print divided by 50 lines per page gives you the
total number of pages.

Have a good one,

Norm

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----- Original Message -----
From: "James David Rich"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, 6 September 2000 3:53
Subject: page n of x


> I need to put 'page n of x' on a printout.  I know I can easily use a dds
> keyword to get the current page.  Is there something that tells my program
> how many pages there are?  Maybe a dds keyword like PAGE?
>
>
> James Rich
> james@dansfoods.com
>
>

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