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    microsoft word

    Hi Rob, Thanks for your reply. I am looking for a Word Document in general - either a .DOC or .DOCX I found an old program - see below - that Creates a Word document and puts in the contents of the incoming file into that word document - but leaves the Word Document open on the screen. If...
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    microsoft word

    Hi I have just come back into working with Progress and am having problems with creating a MicroSoft Word document automatically from within Progress. I have most of the requisite data in a 'working text document' called test.txt but want to add extras to it and then have it saved as a...
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    E-Mail validation

    Hi, Windows 7 and Progress 10.2b I have been asked to provide validation on email addresses so have been trying to run the /* client_ValidateEmail.p */ program as above but am getting the following error. Any help gratefully received. Web Service operation ValidateEmail generated a SOAP...
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    send file to USB printer

    Hi Osborne, Thanks for all your help, but I think we will have to go down the adecomm\_osprint.p route Regards Mike
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    send file to USB printer

    Hi Osborne, I tried your suggested solution to create a virtual port (LPT2) with the computer name/printer name. I changed the printer properties to use LPT2, but still the same. Regards Mike
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    send file to USB printer

    Hi Osborne, Thanks for the reply. I will try to do the NET USE solution and see what happens Regards Mike
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    send file to USB printer

    Windows Vista Progress 9.1E (and 10.2B) Hi We are having a problem with being able to send(COPY) a print file to a USB printer. The created.txt is a print file with various control characters in it for formatting. The program in question has the following code to send print to the Shared...
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    PDF problems - getting error message if a PDF is already open

    Hi Thanks I will try your suggestions and see what happens Mike
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    PDF problems - getting error message if a PDF is already open

    Hi Thanks for your reply, but not quite the problem I am having It is when the user opens up PDF files from different sources - the internet, or a different application and leaves them open that the problem occurs. We don't know what the name of the PDF file is so can't check it via the...
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    PDF problems - getting error message if a PDF is already open

    Hi, We look at PDF files through Progress using the code below and it has been acceptable for a while. However when a PDF is already being looked at, chosen from a directory, not through Progress, and the code is run (through a program) then the following message is shown and the required PDF...
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    pdf

    Hi We use a product called vpXprint from a company called 4GL (www.4gl.fr) that produces PDF documents. Mike
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    How to make the Columns from SmartDB sorteable by clicking in it?

    Hi Assuming that the object for the browse is called br_table (Using ADM2 to link all the objects on a Smart Window) then in Definitions section DEF VAR lastcol AS HANDLE NO-UNDO. DEF VAR tmpdesc AS CHAR NO-UNDO. DEF VAR datasource AS HANDLE. DEF VAR csort AS CHAR NO-UNDO...
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    text ,table color in pdf

    Hi We use VpXprint from a company called 4GL. They can be reached at www.4gl.fr and offer a download test version. Hope that helps Mike
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    Report: Excel Format and PDF.

    Hi We use vpXprint 8 to develop/create print files in PDF format and find it very useful. They are at www.4gl.fr Regards Mike
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    Iterate down vs up

    Try REPEAT i = 50 to 1 BY -1: DISPLAY i END. Regards Mike
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    OS-Command not working

    Hi, try putting OUTPUT STREAM s-out CLOSE. OUTPUT STREAM s-out1 CLOSE. before the OS-APPEND etc. Regards Mike
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    SMTPMAIL 501 Syntactically invalid EHLO argument(s)

    Hi All, There was a simple answer - our Email hosting supplier had changed the machine which was our SMTP server, and did not tell us. They also changed it so that we needed to have authentication. After lots of frustrating phone calls the system is now working again. Mike
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    SMTPMAIL 501 Syntactically invalid EHLO argument(s)

    Hi Larry, I did Google "501 Syntactically invalid EHLO argument" but I got fed up looking through the 1000th that referred to Mozilla or exim. All I wanted to know if anybody else had had similar problems, or could point me in the right direction. Regards Mike
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    SMTPMAIL 501 Syntactically invalid EHLO argument(s)

    Hi, We are suddenly having the following appear when using SMTPMAIL 501 Syntactically invalid EHLO argument(s) As far as I know nothing has changed in the last month - ( we have been running the same program/smtpmail for years). Any ides as to where I start looking? below is a test list...
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    PDF Include table program ?

    Hi Greg, We use VpXprint from 4GL and find it very useful for producing PDF documents. - www.4gl.fr Mike
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