>>Hello all, trust your weekends were supurb. I would like to know how to point a report field at a plain ascii text file. I have made a cursor and used it... However, I have files up to 35 meg. Thats 35M for the origional, 35M+ for the cursor and 35M+ for the report too. WOW, Holy hard drive batman. How can I say you must have 100+ Meg to my users?
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>I guess u made a cursor because u are printing from more than one table
>so instead u can set relations and filters
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>Arnon

No, Arnon, I should be that lucky. I did it so that I could use the same report form with different ascii files. I need to be able to controll orientation and pitch without user input. I know this is a poor way to do it but I dont know another way.

Currently, it goes like this. I have a file MyQue.que its ascii text. I read (appe) to a cursor MyCurse.OnlyField. The report form is pointing at
MyCurse.OnlyField (which is a memo field) and then based on text width I change the .frx file to the proper layout. These are financial records and can contain HUGE amounts of data. Normal file is 8-9Meg but some closing reports have been 35Meg! I am looking for a better way to print these files. Cant write a report for each one as this data is comming raw from an outside source. :( :( :(