Re: Print Total Pages in Report -- RPG400-L

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In a message dated 2/9/2001 4:09:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jlcrosby@fwi.com writes:

So for every print program requested to have the "Page X of Y" (and if the
users like it, they
will ask for it everywhere), you will duplicate the logic in another
program? Not very
productive, IMO. The original questioner was asking for (I assume) a way
to do it once that was
applicable elsewhere. Other posts in this thread had already addressed the
duplicate pass idea,
as well as external indicators and other ideas.

Fortunately where I am it's not necessary for all reports to be like that. If
it were necessary I would just print FINAL PAGE on the last page of the
report. Then they would know they have all the pages when there is no final
total.

Most of the reports that have the X of X are for other companies who
requested it and that has mostly changed over to sending data files and them
generating the reports themselves.

If I had to write a standard program to do it I would probably use a CL
program to CPYSPLF and then I would count something that is on each page
(page) for example and then update the physical file the spooled file was
copied to with the # needed and copy it back to the same spooled file number
so it holds all the same page attributes.

That doesn't seem to difficult.

Bill