RE: [sqr-users] write 1 from $1 -> in header

["Alexander, Steve" <Steve.Alexander@ci.sj.ca.us>]

What do you mean "write in the header?"  Do you have write statements in the
"begin-heading ... end-heading" section, or are you talking about writing a
header record to the file (a special record at the begining of a file that
contains different data than the other records)?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Anderson [mailto:pegandersonbd1@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:47 AM
To: sqr-users@sqrug.org
Subject: RE: [sqr-users] write 1 from $1 -> in header


ok, all your replies made sense, but it's still not working.  It's pretty 
weird.  I have the file being opened in BEGIN-PROGRAM.  The file is being 
opened and written to.  Then when it tries the write in the header - that's 
when I get the error.  I'm not closing the file until right before 
END-PROGRAM.  It errors out and then I'm left with the first page of data 
with no header.  Any ideas?
TIA,
Ben

>From: "the dragon" <ceprn@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: sqr-users@sqrug.org
>To: sqr-users@sqrug.org
>Subject: RE: [sqr-users] write 1 from $1 -> in header
>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:18:23 -0500
>
>Also, putting an open statement in the heading would never get executed 
>unless print output was created - and print output may be created long 
>after you try writing to a flat file that you wanted open.
>
>clark 'the dragon' willis
>dragon enterprises, consulting services
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>----Original Message Follows----
>
>Don't put an open statement in the HEADING unless you want it to execute at
>the beginning of every page you print.  I'm not sure what happens when you
>try to open a file that's already open.  Maybe nothing, or maybe it deletes
>whatever you've written before and starts over.
>
>Add a "status=#open_status" clause to the open statement and test the value
>of #open_status.  If it isn't 0, then your attempt to open the file didn't
>work.  Why?  You might not be logged in to that drive, or the path in
>$full_name might not exist, or you might not have write-access to it, or
>there might already be a read-only file with that name.
>
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