Help on Mailing Labels

SD simopoulos@scoplife.gr
Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:35:22 +0200


Try  Initial Heading  ""  skip ?
Just for the start of list.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Werry" <guy.werry@hbms.ca>
To: "PH Mailing List (E-mail)" <powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 5:54 PM
Subject: Help on Mailing Labels


> This is pretty embarrassing, but I'm trying to move from mailing labels
> produced on a line printer to ones produced on a laser printer.  The laser
> sheets have margins at the top & bottom of the page of approximately one
> inch.  I'm using Quiz 7.33.D3 on Unix 10.20.
>
> My problem is that I can't get Quiz to generate a form feed to go to the
> next page ... it just keeps putting in lines to jump to the new page, but
> that doesn't work worth beans due to the margins at the page top/bottom.
> (Note that the labels themselves are right on top of each other ... I have
> the spacing correct in the labels themselves).
>
> Here's my code ... I don't want to have to resort to Cobol!
>
> ACCESS WATCH-BOOK
>
> SEL WATCH-BOOK  IF      WB-DEAD-DATE    =       " "
>
> SORT ON LAST-NAME
> ;
> ; SET REPORT NOLIMIT
> set rep lim 40
> SET REPORT DEVICE printer NAME fj211l
> SET PAGE WIDTH 40
> SET PAGE LENGTH 9
> SET PAGE IMAGES 2
> SET NOHEAD
> ; set formfeed
> ;
> page heading skip 6
>
> REPORT                                                          &
>         SKIP 3                                                  &
>        TAB 10 WB-FULL-NAME                                      &
>        SKIP                                                     &
>        TAB 10 MAIL-ADDR1                                        &
>        SKIP                                                     &
>        TAB 10 MAIL-ADDR2                                        &
>        SKIP                                                     &
>         TAB 10 POSTAL-CODE      PIC "^^^ ^^^"                   &
>         SKIP 2
>
> GO
>
> EXIT
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Guy L. Werry
> Systems Analyst
> Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting
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