Re: Print Total Pages in Report

[Rich Duzenbury <rduz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Two options:

1) You have to make another pass over your data and figure out how many 
pages there are before you build the spooled report, and then build the report

2) Create a spooled file with a 'place marker' for the total number of 
pages.  After the report is generated, retrieve the number of pages from 
the spooled file, and then read the original spool file (by api or cpysplf) 
and write a new one, replacing the place marker with the total pages.

It can be a lot of work to go through for not a lot of benefit.  Perhaps 
you can convince your users to just let you add a summary page, where you 
print something like - End of Report - xxx total pages.  As long as they 
get the summary page, they know they have the entire report.

Regards,
Rich

At 05:04 AM 2/9/01 +0000, you wrote:

>Hello all,
>We have an RPG program to print a detailed report  .
>The page number in the report is done automatically using the
>reserve word PAGE in the 'O' spec.
>Now, our user wants to indicate the total Number of pages after the
>page number on each page, ie, 'to show " Page 1 of 3 Pages" etc.,
>instead of  "Page 1, Page 2......".
>
>Can anyone advice us of how to go about this in RPG program?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Viji

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