System Variable Clauses; Printing The Current Date Or Time; Printing Line Numbers; Printing Page Numbers - Tandem ENFORM 058057 Reference Manual

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The System Variable clauses allow you to obtain the current value for the current date,
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time, line number, and page number. The syntax for the System Variable clauses is:
@DATE
@TIME
@LINENO
@PAGENO
Printing the Current The @DATE and @TIME System Variable clauses return the current date and time in
Date or Time internal format. When used in an expression, ENFORM treats them as numeric
literals.
When the @DATE or @TIME system variables are to be printed on a report, convert
them to a display format using the AS DATE or AS TIME clauses. Frequently the
default format is satisfactory and can be specified by:
For more information on date and time display formats, refer to the AS DATE and AS
TIME clauses in this section.

Printing Line Numbers

The @LINENO System Variable clause prints the current line number within a page of
the report. @LINENO can be a target-item in a LIST statement, part of an AFTER
CHANGE, BEFORE CHANGE, AT START, AT END, FOOTING, TITLE,
SUBFOOTING, and SUBTITLE clauses or statements.
The @LINENO option variable specifies how many lines are printed on a page. It is
initially set to 60 lines. To change the number of lines to be printed per page, reset the
@LINENO Option Variable clause. Refer to the SET statement in Section 4 and the
Option Variable clauses in this section.

Printing Page Numbers

The @PAGENO System Variable prints the page number. The following example
prints the page number at the top of a page:
058057 Tandem Computers Incorporated
@DATE AS DATE *
TITLE TAB 100 "Page " @PAGENO;
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