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SQRWP printing - version 4.0.1 to version 4.3



I've been working on a printing problem.  Reports for our customer are
generated by sqrw, then later printed by sqrwp.  Both of these are run in
a .cmd file under WinNT.

The .spf file is properly generated, and if I use the viewer SQRWV and
print from there I get a good print.  It is courier 8-pt, 16.6 characters
per inch.

When I print using SQRWP, spacing of some of the fields is incorrect.  If a
field has numeric data, they print properly.  However if the field is an
alpha string, the spacing goes to 10 characters per inch.  Most of the data
is numeric account data used as alpha.  The starting positions of the
columns are all properly positioned.  Because the character spacing is too
wide, the columns are overlapping.

The reports have not changed in a long time, but recently the customer had
a lot of maintenance done because of hardware problems.  When they were
done they had version 4.3 of SQR.  After looking around, I realized that
the reports had actually be written and running under version 4.0.1.  I
found some files from that version, but not enough to do a proper
reinstallation.

I grabbed the SQRWP.EXE and SQRERR.dat file from the older configuration,
and then sqrwp printed properly.  However, neither the SQRW or SQRWV work
properly with that SQRERR.dat file.

Currently I cannot get the older version, or I would reinstall it.  Moving
in the various pieces (DLLs and such) I found of the older version does not
work either.

I would like to find a way to make these reports print properly, preferably
without a large rewrite.  Has anyone else seen this?  What is the fix?

Thanks