RE: Overlay on first page of spool file only

Use different record formats. Here's how I do it...

A          R DETAIL                                            
A                                               ENDPAGE                 
A            BCCNDT        10          TEXT('DATE_OF_CONTRACT')
A                                               POSITION(1.25 1.375)    
  
A                                               FNTCHRSET(C0H20090
T1V00500)
...
  *                                                              
A          R PG1OVL                    OVERLAY(BENCONT1 0.0 0.0)
  *                                                              
A          R PG2OVL                    OVERLAY(BENCONT2 0.0 0.0)

My RPG looks like this...

C                   Open      Ben100F
C                   Write     Pg1Ovl 
C                   Write     Detail 
C                   Write     Pg2Ovl 
C                   Close     Ben100F

Overlay BENCONT1 prints on the first page, then I print the DETAIL
format, then BENCONT2 prints on the second page. The ENDPAGE keyword is
used to go to a new page since I'm using absolute positioning.


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Overlay on first page of spool file only
> From: Guy Terry <guy.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, August 04, 2005 9:59 am
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> How do you create spool files which have an overlay on the first page 
> only, or an overlay on page one and then a different overlay on the 
> other pages?
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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