PRINT

PRINT

Class

Printing

Purpose

Print a text file on the printer

Syntax

PRINT <.txt filename> | (<expC>)

See Also

RUN, SPAWN, TYPE, PUTENV()

Description

The PRINT command prints the specified <.txt filename> on the printer. The filename can be substituted with an <expC>, enclosed in round brackets, which returns a valid filename. If no file extension is specified, then '.txt' is assumed. If the file extension is '.tmp' the PRINT command will delete the file after printing it.

The Recital/4GL login file contains an environment variable called DB_PRINT which points to a file in the root directory called print.<operating system name>. It contains the commands used by the host operating system to print files The print.<operating system name> file can be customized for your own environment. Multiple print files can be set up and assigned by changing the DB_PRINT environment variable with the PUTENV() function. This allows particular printer files to be associated with a specified group of users, or particular printers.

Example

// Print 4 copies of a report
m_filenam = sys(3) = ".txt"
report form analysis to file &m_filenam
for i=1 to 4
  print &m_filenam
next
erase &m_filenam

Products

Recital Database Server, Recital Mirage Server, Recital Terminal Developer