Re: Text on report

["Lewis Libman" <LLibman@xxxxxxxx>]

What I have done which works out great is to enter all my text into QTXTSRC 
with the same name as the program.  I then read the the file in as a table file 
and presto changeo,  everything is formatted just the way I want it.  If there 
are any additions or changes, I go into QTXTSRC make my changes and MAYBE I 
have to modify my RPG program.

Lewis 

Lewis Libman
llibman@behr.com
714 545 7101 x2118

>>> Jim Langston <jlangston@conexfreight.com> Tuesday, June 20, 2000 11:44:41 
>AM >>>
I have a report to generate that has quite a bit of text on it.  A whole 
paragraph, basically.

I'm not using the reports, but O specs in my RPG program.  I know some would 
say, and probably rightfully so, to use a report program for this, but I want 
to do this in O specs.

My question is, how do you feel would be the best way to get this long text 
data into my program to print on the page?  There are a number of ways I could 
do it, including puting it in a file, then opening it and reading it a line at 
a time into a variable and printing it out.  Or I could do a Compile time array 
and stick it on the bottom of my program.

I could type out the text in the O specs and just space it accordingly, but the 
rather short length of the input fields for the O specs for constants kinda 
limits me on this.

There is another type of array, I think, where I could create the file and then 
load the array with the information at run time from the file, though I've 
never done that before.

Does anyone have any other, maybe even better, suggestions?

Regards,

Jim Langston

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