OT: Concatenating print files

Hi All,

This is only tangentally VFP-related but here it goes: I've got a VFP app
that prints a number of reports to file. I'd like to concatenate them into
a single file for later sending to the printer. However, just appending a
file on as I'd do with a regular text file loses something in the
translation and the printer does not print correctly. Anyone have a
recommendation?

Thanks (and happy weekend!)

- John

Gregory
Sat Aug 09 05:09:36 CDT 2003

John,

How do you concatenate the files ? fgets() and fputs() ar enot a good
idea. I would use fread() and fwrite() instead.. In addition, there may be
an eof marker per file (^z) which you have to skip

Having said that, what I do is to pass an array of file names to a routine,
open the printer, process the array of file names, and close the printer
I do not concatenate the files first

Gregory
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"John Spiegel" <jspiegel@c-comld.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> This is only tangentally VFP-related but here it goes: I've got a VFP app
> that prints a number of reports to file. I'd like to concatenate them
into
> a single file for later sending to the printer. However, just appending a
> file on as I'd do with a regular text file loses something in the
> translation and the printer does not print correctly. Anyone have a
> recommendation?
>
> Thanks (and happy weekend!)
>
> - John
>
>