RE: DDS 255 Column limit

["Rick Rauterkus" <ricker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >but DDS cannot start a field past column 255.
>
> I haven't tried this, but can you use relative positioning for the
> last few fields?  Try putting the location as +2 or however many
> blanks you want want between the columns (or even +0).

No, it doesn't accept this either.  We ended up being able to squeeze the
report down enough so that the last field starts in column 255, so we are ok
until the users ask "by the way, can you just add this to the end of the
report?", so we will probably be looking at this again next week!

As far as the suggestion by Mark and Joe goes, using a long text field and
building it in the program, I guess if I would go that route, I would tend
to do the whole line that way rather than just the tail end.  I have
actually considered this technique for use in a generic file maintenance
subfile handling program.  But for the report, I would leave it up to the
programmer to see if she would prefer this or use O-specs instead.

Thanks!
Rick


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