RE: Print Total Pages in Report

If you are needing a report ... what is the purpose in counting the pages ..
you mean you are going to use the time it would take to put the report in a
print Que. ... to just count the pages .. Why not put the report on hold ..
in the Que. .. and if .. it is 'too long' to print.. it is available for
user viewing..  Seems like a considerable amount of time has been consumed
over the insignificant .!!  I really am curious .. what is the purpose!!!
... Normally .. reports of this time are run .. in off hours .. Maybe the
daily operating routines need some review also!! .. 

Gene Hockemeyer
Sunbeam Corporation
Manager EDI and EC Business Development
561 912-4877
hockemg@sunbeam.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:00 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Print Total Pages in Report


Bill,
Maybe it's me, or maybe it's just Friday.  Do you in fact have an
application where you have written a program to calculate the page count and
a separate program to actually print?  How do you keep the calculate program
"in synch" with the print program?  

As a programmer who has actually had to solve this problem for production
customers, I rejected this idea out of hand for all of the reasons
previously posted.  The aforementioned archives carry an exhaustive
discussion as to why calculating the page count twice is too problematic to
be practical.  Have you read the archives?  Here is the link to the first
message: http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200009/msg00029.html
Messages which may be interesting to you:
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200009/msg00034.html
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200009/msg00051.html
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200009/msg00076.html

The fundamental concept is that the page count is generated by the same
program doing the printing, so there can never be a mismatch between the
calculated page count and the physical page count.

Buck 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: BillsVilla@aol.com 
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 2:27 PM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Print Total Pages in Report
> 
> Are you a programmer or just make up excuses to not do things? 
> 
> Your program is going to print a detail and total line for a reason, when 
> that reason happens ADD 2 TO THE COUNTER. 
> 
> Duh... 
> 
> Bill
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