Re: Text on report

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm... what exactly is a "user space"?  I've heard mention of these,
but always thought they were the same thing as a User Data Structure
(UDS).  Are they one in the same?

Regards,

Jim Langston

"L. S. Russell" wrote:

> Why not put the text in a user space and read the text into a variable
> and write it out.
>
> Joel Fritz wrote:
> >
> > All you have to do with the array is make it arbitrarily large (enough to
> > hold the text any way) and mark the end with a delimiter like '//end' or
> > something equally creative.  Once you start thinking in terms of control
> > codes, it's like Bank Street Writer or Text 38 all over again--possibilities
> > are limitless.<G>  Condition the loop on finding the end marker.  It does
> > involve incrementing the array index  manually and watching for overflow,
> > though.  Just having gone through a round of sending out batches of e-mail
> > with the text in a file, I can see some advantages to the array.  You can
> > edit the text and get AS/400 WYSIWYG.
> >
> > 'Course, if you put the text in a source member, you can actually edit it
> > with Text 38.<g>
> >
> > Again, it's a matter of taste, and whether the text is likely to change.

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