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- A few notes on the RASIS Internal Viewer.
-
- When you tell RASIS to send your report to the screen, here is what
- happens. RASIS writes the report to a temporary file on disk, in the
- current directory, the viewer then reads this file in, and displays
- it for you. When you Exit with the ESC key, the temporary file is
- deleted.
-
- The internal viewer is capable of using EMS memory to load your report,
- thus allowing views of a larger file. If EMS is not available, then
- it will use memory from the HEAP, (standard memory) thus a less large
- file may be viewed.
-
- Using the USER report as an example, seeing as it is the the most
- size intensive report, per record, with EMS available, the internal
- viewer can handle the report for about 350 to 400 users.
-
- More than that, or using HEAP memory, you may get the message that
- the viewer was unable to read in the entire file, and its possible
- you could even get some other type program error.
-
- If, you experience any error of this type, then you will need to
- send your reports, at least the larger ones, to FILE, then view with
- your defined EXTERNAL viewer, preferably one like LIST, that will page
- large files in and out of memory.
-
- The next version of RASIS, will allow you to define a viewer expressly
- for viewing your reports to screen, effectively disabling the internal
- viewer.
-
- Most sysops will find the internal viewer meets their needs, but if not,
- for the interim, send reports to file, then view with the external.
- RASIS 2.03 (when it comes) will simplify this procedure.
-
- And who knows..... perhaps before to long, I will have the internal
- viewer paging files in and out of memory.
-
- Rand Nowell
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