Re: Text on report

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you go out to www.opensource400.org and download apipr.zip (
http://www.opensource400.org/downloads/apipr.zip ) I have prototyped all
the api's needed to work with user spaces. I can dig up an example (a
very simple on cause I had just figured them out) of how to create,
write to and retrieve data from a user space if you need it.

Jim Langston wrote:
> 
> Hmm... what exactly is a "user space"?  I've heard mention of these,
> but always thought they were the same thing as a User Data Structure
> (UDS).  Are they one in the same?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> "L. S. Russell" wrote:
> 
> > Why not put the text in a user space and read the text into a variable
> > and write it out.
> >
> > Joel Fritz wrote:
> > >
> > > All you have to do with the array is make it arbitrarily large (enough to
> > > hold the text any way) and mark the end with a delimiter like '//end' or
> > > something equally creative.  Once you start thinking in terms of control
> > > codes, it's like Bank Street Writer or Text 38 all over 
>again--possibilities
> > > are limitless.<G>  Condition the loop on finding the end marker.  It does
> > > involve incrementing the array index  manually and watching for overflow,
> > > though.  Just having gone through a round of sending out batches of e-mail
> > > with the text in a file, I can see some advantages to the array.  You can
> > > edit the text and get AS/400 WYSIWYG.
> > >
> > > 'Course, if you put the text in a source member, you can actually edit it
> > > with Text 38.<g>
> > >
> > > Again, it's a matter of taste, and whether the text is likely to change.
> 
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