Need help printing to a text file from OI (OpenInsight Specific)
At 30 OCT 2000 05:13:30PM Tim Farmer wrote:
One of our customers wants to send the results of some of our reports to a text file so that they may be imported into another application.
Our product is built on OI3.7, using SLIST for reports. We have tried to print to FILE: using the GENERIC Text-Only print driver but we still get control characters in the text file.
I have tried all the options of the print driver but no luck on filtering out the control codes. I'm thinking the codes may be coming from SLIST but not sure.
We would like to provide a simple solution for this customer without having to rewrite a bunch of code just for them.
I would be greatful for any assistance.
At 01 NOV 2000 04:53AM Oystein Reigem wrote:
Tim,
I think this must have been discussed a lot on the lists. Try do a search.
What control characters do you get with SLIST? Common stuff like tabs and form feeds? (I tried to do what you do with my own SLIST but some other problem came in the way.)
I seem to remember a posting from Sprezzatura recently about a method for post filtering or converting output going to a file. It wasn't output from SLIST that was discussed, though.
- Oystein -