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A few notes on the RASIS Internal Viewer.
When you tell RASIS to send your report to the screen, here is what
happens. RASIS writes the report to a temporary file on disk, in the
current directory, the viewer then reads this file in, and displays
it for you. When you Exit with the ESC key, the temporary file is
deleted.
The internal viewer is capable of using EMS memory to load your report,
thus allowing views of a larger file. If EMS is not available, then
it will use memory from the HEAP, (standard memory) thus a less large
file may be viewed.
Using the USER report as an example, seeing as it is the the most
size intensive report, per record, with EMS available, the internal
viewer can handle the report for about 350 to 400 users.
More than that, or using HEAP memory, you may get the message that
the viewer was unable to read in the entire file, and its possible
you could even get some other type program error.
If, you experience any error of this type, then you will need to
send your reports, at least the larger ones, to FILE, then view with
your defined EXTERNAL viewer, preferably one like LIST, that will page
large files in and out of memory.
The next version of RASIS, will allow you to define a viewer expressly
for viewing your reports to screen, effectively disabling the internal
viewer.
Most sysops will find the internal viewer meets their needs, but if not,
for the interim, send reports to file, then view with the external.
RASIS 2.03 (when it comes) will simplify this procedure.
And who knows..... perhaps before to long, I will have the internal
viewer paging files in and out of memory.
Rand Nowell