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Subject: Re: Printing to a disk file?
From: Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:08:23 -0500
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Hi Dave,

You can use an override to go from almost any type of file to almost any other type of file. For example, I frequently do the opposite of what you describe, where the program's output is PRINTER, and I want a DISK file, so I'll use OVRDBF to override to a disk file. (Usually because I want to read the "report" into a computer program and do something to it.)

So... you can override one type of file into another. Is that what you're asking?

Dave Boettcher wrote:

Thanks for the answer. It already works, Scott, I still don't know how.
I would have expected it needed to be called "printer" on the F spec.

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Re: Printing to a disk file? , Dave Boettcher
Re: Printing to a disk file? , Vern Hamberg

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