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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00190075
Message ID:
00190096
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>>>>Has anyone ever successfully converted a report (one that fills the whole page) to something like a text or word file? I would settle for anything that can be emailed.
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>>>You can use REPORT FORM .... TO FILE, and the result might be emailed. It depends how your addressee will use this file. There are few solutions here: use ASCII file or PostScript file or print to Acrobat PDF file.
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>>For fairly "savvy" users, a few times I've used REPORT FORM ... TO FILE Myfile.prn, sent the user the prn file, and had them use COPY /B Myfile.prn LPT1: from a command prompt.
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>>Obviously not for the usual level of user.
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>You may send to non-savvy users small app with just one COPY FILE command inside. It might not be necessarily VFP app even :)

Maybe even an app with a bat extension? ;) ;)
Rich Addison, Micro Vane, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI
Relax, don't worry, have a homebrew.
- Charlie Papazian, The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing
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