topic Re: produce .out file report in ODS and Base Reporting

produce .out file report

null — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 07:26:45 GMT

We are asked to produce a report in .out (extension name) file, rather than .rtf or .pdf.

Does anybody have any experience on this? Thanks for your inputs in adavance!!!

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Re: produce .out file report

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 07:57:01 GMT

Pure text output is created with ODS LISTING.

Re: produce .out file report

andreas_lds — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 08:13:41 GMT

The file extension is just part of the filename. You could create an rtf-file and just name it "bogus.out" - but this is most likely not what you are expected to do. In the past files with listing output had LST as suffix. So you should ask what is expected to inside the file.

Re: produce .out file report

ballardw — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:43:20 GMT

@andreas_lds wrote:

The file extension is just part of the filename. You could create an rtf-file and just name it "bogus.out" - but this is most likely not what you are expected to do. In the past files with listing output had LST as suffix. So you should ask what is expected to inside the file.

Too true.

I worked in an office where we had a documented process that had a generic: create a TXT document from a Word Doc file. I found a bunch of these that someone had just changed the file extension. There were sill DOC format. So I had the joy of opening the documents in Word and do the proper File-Save As to create the text versions. Then explain to the client why we had to replace files (which the client apparently hadn't read yet ?!)