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  3. January 2003

Re: Standards issue - Comments please.

Mark, et al,

>The only advantage an O-spec has over an externally described printer file
>is that you can use array elements in the output.

Can you use a print control DS with PRTF's for dynamic control of printer
spacing and skipping?  Last I knew that could only be done with O specs.

I have some reports where the content is dynamically driven by user-defined
database records.  Being able to use a PrtCtlDS is significantly cleaner code
than the indicators needed for conditional space / skip values in DDS.

Doug

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