saving Oracle reports file in ascii text

From: Bill Morgan <wmorgan_at_nswc.navy.mil>
Date: 1998/03/17
Message-ID: <1998Mar17.201424.20704_at_relay.nswc.navy.mil>#1/1


I am trying to save a report generated by reports 2.5 in ascii text format. I am setting the report parameters as follows:

  DESTYPE=FILE
  DESNAME=file name
  MODE=CHARACTER The problem is the file is 80 columns no matter what other parameters are set.  I have set ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE and DESFORMAT=wide, but they seem to have no effect. Also, the date fields in the report appear as ****** in the ascii file. If I change to MODE=BITMAP, the file comes out in PostScript format, which I don't want. Is there any way to get ascii text with 132 characters and the dates appearing correctly?

Thanks for any help in advance! Please email any responses as well as posting to this group.


William E. Morgan	  NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER
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Received on Tue Mar 17 1998 - 00:00:00 CET

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