Re: new-report creates extra .lis file

[Joan Hudson <joan@MEDIWARE.COM>]

You might just do a system call at the end of your program to
delete the extra .lis...

joan
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>     I am writing a program that creates  a report for each firm in a
>     table.  The report names are dynamically generated based on the firm
>     numbers being read from the table.  The problem is that while all the
>     firm files are created properly, (ex. Progname.firm#.rpt) a .lis file
>     is also generated containing just the report heading.  My program
>     looks something like this:
>
>
>     Begin-Select
>
>     firm_number () on-break print=never before=firm_heading
>     :
>     :
>     from tablename
>     End-Select
>
>
>
>     Begin-Procedure firm_heading
>
>     !if the firm number changes, create a new file
>
>     let $report_name= 'Blabla.' || &firm_number || '.rpt'
>     new-report $report_name
>
>     ...print firm heading stuff
>
>     End-Procedure
>
>
>     Begin-Heading 3
>
>     ...print report title
>
>     End-Heading
>
>
>     I can't put a new-report before the select statement because I don't
>     know what firm numbers are in the table.  Does anyone have any
>     suggestions?
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     Eva