RE: page n of x

James Rich wrote:

>I need to put 'page n of x' on a printout.  
>I know I can easily use a dds keyword 
>to get the current page.  Is there 
>something that tells my program
>how many pages there are?  

Alas, no.  The way I do this is via a two step process.  Let's say I'm
printing bills.  The bill print program takes a parameter that tells it
whether this is the first pass or the second pass.  On the first pass, it
does all the normal printing, but leaves off the "page x of y."   At the end
of each customer's bill, store the number of pages for that customer in a
small work file (cust#, pages).  Then you DLTSPLF the output from the first
pass.  On the second pass, you chain out to the work file with the customer
number and place the "page x of y" and any special graphics, etc.

An alternative is to put a dummy "page 1 of y", "page 2 of y" etc. in the
printout, CPYSPLF it to disk and manipulate it there before doing a CPYF to
put it back into the output queue.

Another alternative is to use the spooled file APIs and the AFP toolkit to
construct the pages "on the fly" as it were.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle     


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