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Report ... ASCII - field truncated?
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From
30/10/1998 12:34:50
 
 
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30/10/1998 10:19:24
Shihchau Tai
Apic Systems Pte Ltd
Singapore, Singapore
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00152635
Message ID:
00152906
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26
>Looks like I am in deep shit. My customer doesn't like the idea of asking his business associates to download 3rd party reader to read email.
>
>MS should do a better job than this.
>
>
>>In my experience reporting to ASCII doesn't work very well. You may want to move PDF up your list options a bit.
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>>>When I print report to a ASCII file, some of my data fields are truncated. I guess my alternative is to set 'stretch when overflow'. But it is not a good idea to keep a 2nd copy of report format just for this. PDF is my very... last resort.
>>>
>>>Is this a MS bug? Anyone knows a way to overcome this?

It may be a field ordering problem. Check your front-to-back/back-to-front order for each of the fields. Positioning IS a major problem with ASCII mode, though.
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP

foxcentral.net
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