RE: How to reliably determine total pages

Good
My responses ARE making it
I am not seeing my answers

Apart from that - I have heard of other people using that same process

Alan Shore
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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:02 PM
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Subject: Re: How to reliably determine total pages

On 10/21/2014 11:30 AM, Alan Shore wrote:

From past experience - I have found that there is no reliable formula
to calculate what you are wanting

If this is a MUST - here is what I have done Execute the logic twice
but using a switch The first time through, the switch is set off.
Nothing is actually printed, but line counts, page counts are
incremented as if it was Save the page count The second time through,
the switch is set on to print the spool file, the line count is
incremented as well as the page count the of page is the saved page
count

Another way I've used is to generate the spooled file with a place holder in the output that looks like 'Page 123456 of nnnnn' where the
123456 is the actual page number as generated by the RPG PAGE reserved word. Once the spooled file is generated, copy it to a PF with CPYSPLF and with another program, scan the spooled file for the place holder and replace the nnnnn with the actual total page count. Then CPYF the PF back to a spooled file.

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