RE: Printer File Help

Welcome (imho) a more organized way of life, and more flexible.
But remember, it is just my opinion, not a way of life.

As for what you are asking, you are correct, you cannot do that....
External print files require their own field definitions, and 
arrays, tables, multi occur data structures and such are not
eligible to be placed there.  Think of the printer file as a 
physical file, and it makes more sense (at least for this part)

So with that said - here is an idea to get around it...
Create a field on your dds-prtf file that is say 192 bytes long/ alpha -
now to fill in the field, you could use eval/%trim/%substr/%editW/%editC to 
place the numeric fields in this one large alpha field.

I have found the DDS reference sufficient for most of my needs, however the 
better tools will become more clear with reading the AFP guides/redbook for
printing, and the
sorcerers guide to rpg.  If you have trouble finding these pdf books, I
could send you off-line
a copy of which ones I have downloaded.

HTH

Mark A. Manske
Sr. Project Lead
Core-Mark International  Minneapolis Division

 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Janell Haskins
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 4:00 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Printer File Help


I'm trying to teach myself how to use externally defined printer files.  I
have two questions for the list.

First, how do you (or can you) refer to an array element in printer file
DDS?  My current program uses an array to track monthly sales and I need to
print out the value for each month (i.e. the individual array elements).

Second, can you recommend a good reference(s) for creating printer files?
I've been working with IBM's DDS Reference, but it couldn't help me in this
situation.

Thanks!

Janell Haskins
Programmer/Analyst
Knit-Rite, Inc.
Kansas City, KS
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