Hi,

I've printed reports to text files for archival purposes in the past and for the life of me can't figure out why this isn't working:

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* tried this first - didn't work

report form rec_summary to file ;
"Balance:"+ DTOC(date())+".txt" ASCII

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* tried this next- didn't work

local lddate, lcfilename

select rsSystem
lddate = rsSystem.proc_date

lcfilename = 'Balance:'+ DTOC(lddate)+'.txt'

report form rec_summary.frx to file (lcfilename) ASCII

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* tried this last - it worked!!

report form rec_summary.frx to file test.txt ASCII

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The first two attempts did not create the text report file - nor did they throw me an error. The last attempt did work. Any idea why either of the first two didn't work?