Renoir;

It is not a matter of "help her", I think it's just to inform us. Anyway, this thread have turned redundant (IMHO)

>Nadya,
>
>Not to offend you, but why are you posting this? I think Jim had some good insights and I probably think there's nothing much more you can do on UT regarding the issues you have with tek-tips. If the sysop (yes, that dates me) says, "Too bad" and keeps you out, I'm not sure how we are supposed to help.
>
>Renoir
>
>>Here is the text in the FAQ as it stands right now:
>>
>>PRIVATE pnPages
>>LOCAL lcfile
>>lcFile = SYS(3)+".tmp"
>>lnHandle = FCREATE(lcFile)
>>FCLOSE (lnHandle)
>>WAIT WINDOW 'Calculating Page Count...' NOWAIT
>>REPORT FORM &cRepName TO FILE (m.lcfile) NOCONSOLE
>>ERASE (m.lcfile)
>>pnpages = _PAGENO
>>WAIT CLEAR
>>REPORT FORM &cRepName TO PRINTER PROMPT PREVIEW
>>RETURN
>>=================
>>Couple of observations:
>>
>>1) What's the purpose of creating and closing the file using low-level functions?
>>
>>2) Report FORM (cRepName) rather than REPORT FORM &cRepName. There is no need to use macro in this case.
>>
>>3) He should mention, that this should be used in versions prior to 8. There is also a KB article with different approach, which he should add to this FAQ to made it complete.
>>
>>4) Important line with pnPages = 0 is omitted
>>=========================
>>In several other FAQs I see, that he posted ideas from UniversalThread. In my opinion, this fact should be properly aknowledged.