Formatting reports / Escape sequences / Axiant Quiz

[Ole Hansen, ScanConsult]

Hi,

In order to print a very wide report (165 chars), I am (foolishly?) trying
to embed an escape sequence in my Axiant Quiz report - the good ol'
PowerHouse way :

access tbl_misc
choose f_key "UNIQUERECORD"

def esc_num int*2   = 27
def esc     char*1  = char(esc_num)[1:1]
def esc_seq char*20 = esc + "&k2s&l1O"

set report device printer noejectpage

initial heading esc_seq

report "Condensed and Landscape ?"


Windows seems to swallow the escape-character as I get :

  <square>&k2s&l1O           Condensed and Landscape ?

in 12 pitch and Portrait (the printers' default).

I have verified that I indeed have an escape character as the character
preceeding the first '&' (by specifying 'set rep dev disc name' and reading
the file with a hex editor).

Am I missing something? Or does anyone know of another way to format
odd-sized reports in Axiant - short of generating a RTF-file from Quiz and
printing it automatically via Wordpad?

TIA.

With kind regards
 
Ole Hansen
 
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