METHOD OF PRINTING RECORDS FROM STORED FILES OF SPATIALLY RELATED DATA IN A TEXT PROCESSING SYSTEM

摘要

Method of printing on a printer (15) records from a file of spatially related data stored in a text processing system comprising a processor (11), a keyboard (10) and a display (14); consisting in establishing for the printer (15) the number of print positions in each line, transferring to the printer (15) header data including field names and maximum field width, starting another print line whenever the next field name exceed the number of print positions remaining in the line until the header data has been transferred, storing print position data identifying where each field begins, and transferring to the printer (15) a control character prior to the transfer of each record. Column to cause the data associated therewith to be aligned with the start of its corresponding field name.