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- From: bochner@das.harvard.edu (Harry Bochner)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: WORDWRAP [COMPRESS]
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.211213.6994@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:12:13 GMT
- Article-I.D.: das.1992Aug31.211213.6994
- References: <1992Aug27.210820.7728@das.harvard.edu>
- Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News)
- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
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- In article <1992Aug27.210820.7728@das.harvard.edu>, I wrote:
- |> it seems to me at I want WORDWRAP without COMPRESS
- ...
- |> I.e. it visually compresses the blanks on screen, even though they're there in
- |> the database! This ruins the correspondence between what's on screen on what's
- |> in the report :-(
- |> Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
-
- It turns out this is Bug #10166, mentioned in the release notes. The work around
- (for my case) is to use WORDWRAP COMPRESS, and then in the report use
-
- print longfield WORDWRAP RIGHT MARGIN xyz
-
- (When I posted my query, I had forgotten about the new wordwrap function, so I
- couldn't see any way to get the effect I wanted ...)
-
- --
- Harry Bochner
- bochner@das.harvard.edu
-