[sqr-users] Location of Form-Feed

[Daniel Vandenberg <vandberg@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu>]

We have been having problems printing the output from our SQR programs when 
we put them into production that were not occurring in our test 
environment.   The form-feeds (^L) are not in the same location, so the 
printing on labels and forms is not aligned properly.  We compared the 
programs, the files they included and the SQR initialization files and 
could not find any differences.  Finally, we noticed we are running an 
older version of SQR in our test environment than we had thought we were.

Test Environment:     SQR for PeopleSoft/8.18/HP 9000/HPUX B.11.00/Oracle 
8.0.6/Jun 05 2002

Production Environment:    SQR for PeopleSoft/8.19/HP 9000/HPUX 
B.11.00/Oracle 8.0.6/Jan 02 2003

I wrote a very simple program and ran it in both environments to see if how 
we were declaring the printer and layout was causing the problem.

begin-heading 5
         print $sqr-ver (3,1)
end-heading
begin-program
         show $sqr_ver
         move 200 to #line
         print 'Start' (+1, 1)
         while #line > 0
                 print 'Line' (+1, 1)
                 print #line  (  , 10) edit '999'
                 subtract 1 from #line
         end-while
         print 'End' (+1, 1)
end-program

Even with these minimal commands, the output was still different.  The 
form-feeds from the 8.18 version were at the end of each page, while those 
from the 8.19 version were at the top.  In the output from our regular 
programs, 8.18 always puts the form-feeds at the end of the page, but 8.19 
sometimes puts it at the end of the heading instead of the start of the 
page.  Line Printer (LP) was the printer type in all cases.

Has anyone experienced this change in the output from different versions of 
SQR?


Daniel Vandenberg
Administrative Computing
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Email :  vandberg@uwosh.edu

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