RE: Print Total Pages in Report

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill,
Maybe it's me, or maybe it's just Friday.  Do you in fact have an
application where you have written a program to calculate the page count and
a separate program to actually print?  How do you keep the calculate program
"in synch" with the print program?  

As a programmer who has actually had to solve this problem for production
customers, I rejected this idea out of hand for all of the reasons
previously posted.  The aforementioned archives carry an exhaustive
discussion as to why calculating the page count twice is too problematic to
be practical.  Have you read the archives?  Here is the link to the first
message: http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200009/msg00029.html
Messages which may be interesting to you:
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200009/msg00034.html
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200009/msg00051.html
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200009/msg00076.html

The fundamental concept is that the page count is generated by the same
program doing the printing, so there can never be a mismatch between the
calculated page count and the physical page count.

Buck 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: BillsVilla@aol.com 
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 2:27 PM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Print Total Pages in Report
> 
> Are you a programmer or just make up excuses to not do things? 
> 
> Your program is going to print a detail and total line for a reason, when 
> that reason happens ADD 2 TO THE COUNTER. 
> 
> Duh... 
> 
> Bill
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