Re: e-Arranging a spool file

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  IMO just about anything would be a better idea than reading & 
rewriting the data from an already spooled report.  Irrespective of 
ease, that is a path worth avoiding whenever possible.  Given a choice 
of "report produced from the data", or a "report produced from a 
report", which one of those even /sounds like/ the wrong thing to do? :-)

Regards, Chuck

Adam West wrote:
> I have a report that is printing by Invoice number. It is used as
> a kind of picking/packing sheet by the warehouse. What they would
> like would be to print the report by Model number for efficiency.
>
> Since this is an old cycle RPG report I am hesitant to change the
> structure of the program. I would rather look at the spool file 
> and get the model number and redo the order.
>
> I was wondering if this is an easy task to do.
>
> The other option I guess would be to add a work file to the program
> and as a separate report print the recap of what is needed to be
> picked. But I think  they would prefer not to be cluttered with yet
> another stack of papers.