Printing (was: Using OO concepts in RPG)

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>How would I print a a report to a PC printer with 
>RPG?  I'd like a watermark, with the company logo 
>in the upper left/  The time and date should be small 
>printer.  

AFP does this nicely.  Of course we have to pay extra for that, but that's
nor RPG's fault.

>Paging would be "Page n of nn"   

That one's application-specific.

>I'd like to print landscape and use the whole page.

AFP does this too.  As well as multi-up.  Doesn't do colour though.

I don't think anybody can say exactly WHAT RPG is these days.  I mean,
between subprocedures, /free, embedded SQL and the ability to use C and
Java, it simply isn't as clear-cut as it was in the unit record days.  This
unit record heritage is what makes it easy to read/write a display screen,
and harder to read/write XML.  One can easily model a display screen as a
deck of cards...
  --buck