Filling remaining lines of a page in a Quiz report

[bruce@schuck.com]

If your bill of lading report is straightforward, you
could rewrite it in quickbol (ie do everyting in the
initialize procedure, and loop while counting lines etc)

Or

If this is a batch job the simplest solution is to use
DCL to read the quiz output file, and count the lines.
Once the dcl job hits the formfeed character, keep
putting out . as the first character of each line until
the count hits 60 (or whatever your page length is)
until it gets to the header line and start again.


On Thu, 18 July 2002, "Hoppe, Eric EP" wrote

> 
> All-
> 
> We have been replacing the Dec line printers with
Epson LQ-570+ dot-matrix
> printers for the reason of cost and availability.  We
are using these
> printers to print multipart Bill of Lading forms.  We
have the Epson
> printers set up as 'push' tractor feed.  It appears
the Epson printers
> accelerate the feed to the top of the next sheet when
the report is complete
> which is causing these multi-part forms to get all
bunched up.
> 
> What does all this have to do with PH?
> Is there a way to tell Quiz to 'fill' in the
remaining lines of a page with
> a period "." at the beginning of the line to force
the printer to keep a
> constant speed to the end of the form?  I know Quiz
keeps tabs of how much
> space is left because of the RESERVE statement.
> 
> The following is purely supplemental, non-critical
info-
> As I am sure you are all wondering... Why not look at
other solutions: 
> Why not use a different printer? We haven't found a
decent one that does
> multi-part forms.
> Why not print 4 copies on a LaserJet? We thought
about this and the users
> would freak if they had to do this... I am sure some
of you are aware of
> users in a manufacturing arena.
> Why not stay with the DEC printers?  They are easily
3x as expensive, are no
> longer produced, and are VERY expensive to repair,
and they are very moody
> Why not use the tractor feed to 'pull' the form? 
This wastes forms, causing
> us to throw one away for every one printed.
> 
> Thanks for any input... even if it is to comment on
the other solutions.
> 
> ---ehops
> 
> Eric Hoppe
> Steelscape, Inc.
> Senior Systems Analyst
> 360.673.8247
> 
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