NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/database/7957

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From: [e-mail] (Barbara Roy)
Subject: Paradox 4.0 Report bug?
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I have discovered what appears to be a bug in the Paradox 4.0 reports. When
you have a wordwrapped field placed in a group header and no blank line beneath
it, it doesn't wordwrap the field. However,the wordwrap works properly for the
first page, but not for the first wordwrapped field on subsequent pages if a
blank line and/or the keyword "BLANKLINE" was left under the wordwrapped field.
There seems to be no difference when using Annn type fields or memo type fields.

I am using the wordwrap number of lines as "v" for variable. According to the
documentation I shouldn't have to place a blank line for each wordwrapped line,
but that is the only way it works properly. I've tried different combinations
of blank lines and the keyword BLANKLINE. Sometimes the use of BLANKLINE "fixes"
things for all but that first group header on the page and sometimes I have to
use that blank line to get things to work.

Anyone have a clue as to what is going on? I've tried about every combination
and permutation I can think of without success. We tested the same report in
Paradox 3.0 and it worked, but it won't in 4.0.

Barbara Roy, University of Iowa, Weeg Computing Center, Iowa City, IA.  52242
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