>In allowing my users to select page number to print a report,
>I had tried to obtain the past page number by including
>the following statements in the init event of the form:
> REPORT FORM MyReport TO SCREEN NOCONSOLE
> lastPage = _pageno
>


>Every time the report is printed. The init event would execute
>the above but the following message appeared:
>
> "Screen.txt already exists, overwrite it ? Yes/No"
>
>My Q's are:
>1. Can I get away without this appearing every time the above
> REPORT command is executed?
>
>2. Where is the best place to put this REPORT FORM NOCONSOLE
> statement so that I don't have to re-generate the past page everytime
> I print the report.
>
>3. Is there a more appropriate (or simple) way to obtain the last page
> than the REPORT command ?
>
>Thanks for any help in advance.

In the procedure, which calls your report, put
private nLastPage
nLastPage=0

In Init of your report you can put:

 if vartype(m.nLastPage)="N"
    if m.nLastPage>0 && Last Page was already calculated
    else
      report form myReport to file dummy.txt noconsole
      nLastPage=_pageno
      erase dummy.txt
    endif
  else
     && Should never happend, but if it's, the calling procedure doesn't set this property
  endif

Where are other ways, which based on calculations, but I think, this way is simplest, though for big reports this process may take time...

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