End of Month Reports to Disk is an optional add-on feature to the End Of Month Report chain that allows you to print reports to disk files or to printer and disk files. These disk files are in ASCII format and can be used in other utilities (Microsoft Excel, Access, etc.). This will only be available when running the End Of Month Report Chain (AR-3-6-5). When printing the reports to disk, you are given an option for an extension that should be used on the filenames.
When End of Month reports are run, the following screen inputs will display:
Choose P for printer to have end of month reports print to the main printer as before. It will bypass the question for the extension on the disk file and on to the continue question.
Choose D for disk file to have end of month reports print out to a disk file. Each report will print out to a separate disk file. There is an option to have an inputted extension attached to the disk file. The extension is input of up to 3 alpha-numeric characters. Pressing carriage return will create the disk files with no extensions. The extensions would be useful as a descriptor for another media besides SuperDOS or UBL.
Examples:
Choose B for both will print end of month reports to the main system printer and to the disk files. With the option of disk file or both to printer and disk file, a disk file is created for 101 sectors. For every report that is selected to print, another disk file is created. If every end of month, report is selected, there will be up to 52 disk files created for a total of 5252 sectors. These disk files will remain on your system and can be re-used for the next end of month as long as the same extension is entered. When end of month reports are ran again, and a different extension is entered, there will be up to 52 new disk files created on your system. To save on system hard drive space, it is recommended to use the same extension every time the end of month reports are ran.
This shows the current list of end of month reports, the program name and the corresponding disk file name (without an extension).
