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- From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: FORM FEED IN REPORTS
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.031708.12034@informix.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 03:17:08 GMT
- References: <1gnr51INNa7d@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
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- In article <1gnr51INNa7d@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> yaron@ortarg.edu.ar (Yaron Zarfati) writes:
- >Hi, I need help on the behavior of the SKIP TO TOP OF FORM statement in
- >reports.
- >When this statement is reached, informix fills the report with empty lines
- >until it reaches the number specified in the PAGE LENGTH statement.
- >This slows down the printing, so what I would like to know is if does somebody
- >knows how to make informix to use the formfeed character ???
- > --------
-
- If you have 4.1, you can use
- TOP OF PAGE "^L"
- in the Output section of your report.
-
- See Page S-48 of the 4GL 4.1 Supplement.
-
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- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland
-
- "But you know what? There's another point that I'd like to make:
- it's very possible that Adolf Hitler kept a very nice check book.
- You know? I mean, and that's fine." -- Barbara Boxer, 10/24/92
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