Dynamic File Name in Quiz

[Guy Werry]

It's actually quite simple.

You need to set the PH_PRINTER environment variable.

In our case, we are using the Korn shell (ksh); the syntax may change depending on what flavour of Unix / which shell.

So, inside the Quiz program we say:

SET REP DEV PRINTER

and we execute like this:

export PH_PRINTER="lp -dxxx -oyyy"
quiz 

where xxx is your printer and yyy are the printer options, if any.  This way, the Unix spooler gets each 

One cool side affect of doing this is that if you are debugging and want to look at the report(s) on disc instead of printing them, you can do the export like this: export PH_PRINTER='cat ->> glw'
Then, when you run the quiz report it will put the output into a disc file named "glw", without any code changes!  Really handy!

Hope this helps:
Guy L. Werry
Senior Systems Analyst
Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited. 



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Abd Ghani Abdullah
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 11:12 AM
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Subject: Dynamic File Name in Quiz



Dear Gurus,

Is there a way to make the SET REP NAME XX dynamic in QUIZ on UNIX?
We have a customer who use multiple quiz program to produce a series of 
report. These reports are then printed at oen go as a single report to the 
local printer.

In MPE envioroment the FILE EQUATION work like a charm. If multiple users are 
using it, the link only exist for that particular session.

We have changed these to ln in UNIX. When more than a single user log-in, the 
result is a disaster!!

Thanks & regards.
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