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Display a text file on the screen or printer | Display a text file on the screen or printer | ||
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| − | If the optional TO PRINT clause is specified, then the file will be output to the printer. The TO PRINT option will default to a local printer unless the command SET PRINTER TO SPOOLER is issued. SET PRINTER TO SPOOLER causes the file to be spooled to the system printer defined by the environment variable DB_PRINT. | + | If the optional TO PRINT clause is specified, then the file will be output to the printer. The TO PRINT option will default to a local printer unless the command SET PRINTER TO \\SPOOLER is issued. SET PRINTER TO \\SPOOLER causes the file to be spooled to the system printer defined by the environment variable DB_PRINT. |
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set printer to \\spooler | set printer to \\spooler | ||
file = dir("*.prg", .T.) | file = dir("*.prg", .T.) | ||
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type file &file to print | type file &file to print | ||
file = dir("*.prg", .F.) | file = dir("*.prg", .F.) | ||
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==Products== | ==Products== | ||
| − | Recital | + | Recital Server, Recital |
[[Category:Documentation]] | [[Category:Documentation]] | ||
[[Category:Commands]] | [[Category:Commands]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Input Output]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Input Output Commands]] | ||
Latest revision as of 16:27, 25 November 2009
Purpose
Display a text file on the screen or printer
Syntax
TYPE [FILE] <.txt filename> | (<expC>) [TO PRINT]
See Also
ALIAS, DB_PRINT, PRINT, SET PAGELENGTH
Description
The TYPE command displays the specified text file on the screen. If no filename is specified, '.txt' is used. The file name can be substituted with an <expC>, enclosed in round brackets, which returns a valid filename.
FILE
If the optional FILE keyword is specified, then the text file will be displayed in pages, with line numbers, and the name of the file will be displayed as a heading above each page. The length of each page may be specified with the SET PAGELENGTH TO command. This feature is particularly useful for producing program listings.
TO PRINT
If the optional TO PRINT clause is specified, then the file will be output to the printer. The TO PRINT option will default to a local printer unless the command SET PRINTER TO \\SPOOLER is issued. SET PRINTER TO \\SPOOLER causes the file to be spooled to the system printer defined by the environment variable DB_PRINT.
Example
set printer to \\spooler file = dir("*.prg", .T.) do while not empty(file) type file &file to print file = dir("*.prg", .F.) enddo set printer to
Products
Recital Server, Recital
