Nick,
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>I have one pure VFP application which does exactly that kind of massive print job.
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>For every client the necessary set of VFP reports (up to 4 reports per client) is run one-by-one to a separate print files with the names generated with SYS(2015) and extension ".pr1", then they are concatenated with DOS COPY command like this:
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>lcCommand = "RUN copy /B *.pr1 " + lcPATH + lcOutputFileName
>&lcCommand
>
>
>The huge output file is then passed to the mainframe printer.
Right.. I've been thinking about that approach as well. Seems the most straightforward. However, where you have "up to 4 reports per client" we typically will have somewhere between 15-30 pages drawn from 8-12ish reports.
Thanks Nick!
Best,
DD
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