Re: PRTF Overflow

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

It depends upon the application. If you are always printing a fixed number
of lines in each block, then the overflow indicator method will work fine as
long as you adjust the overflow line on the printer file.

If it's a variable number of lines per printed block, then the file feedback
method is required.

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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909 425-0196 fax

From: Simon Coulter <shc@flybynight.com.au>
> Simply relying on the overflow indicator fails when you require all lines
in a group to be on
> the same page.  Your example makes assumptions about the page size.  If
the page size is
> changed to 15 your code will allow the last group of 10 to span two pages
which is exactly what
> the other appends are trying to avoid.
>
> Using the file feedback area allows the program to determine the actual
number of lines
> available on the page, and use the current line to determine whether the
data to print will fit
> before the end of the page.  If so, print the block, if not, skip to a new
page and print the
> block.

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