>>When I wrote
>>report form xx.frx to file xx.txt ascii
>>all is mixed up and unusable (very hard) for reading. This is especially a case when report is in landscape mode.
>>What could it be?
>
>ASCII clause in report form command is suitable for very simple reports (not landscape), as others pointed out. I had a requirement to create reports, which need to be outputed to ASCII. I spent few days trying to make it work, but finally decided against it and created all reports by code. It's not hard, BTW. I have a simple maket program to convert Report to draft text of the program (this program still will be needed to adjust then), let me know, if you're interested to see it.
Nadya,
That's what I ended up doing: coding the entire report (with "?" / "??"). Being very repetitive work, especially the main loop (scan, break expression, page headers, etc.) I ended up writing a text-report class that duplicates most of the functionality of the VFP report writer (see download#
9991, if you are interested).
Hilmar.
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