MONTANA RIVERS INFORMATION SYSTEM 

 , Rivers Report . ,. . ■ - 



APPENDIX F 



Report DeHnition File 



I Introduction 



The MRIS Rivers Report uses a report definition file to tell it where to find 

 the files it needs and how many files it can have open at one time. It also defines 

 the indices used by the Rivers Report. The name of the file is RPRIVERS.RPT. It 

 must be in the same directory from which you loaded RPRIVERS.EXE, the 

 Rivers Report program. 



Two versions of the report definition file are provided: RPRIVERS.AO and 

 RPRIVERS.20. The RPRIVERS.RPT file provided on the installation diskettes is the 

 same as RPRIVERS.20. 



RPRIVERS.AO allows all of the files needed by the Rivers Report to be open 

 at the same time. It allows for faster operation of the program. It requires DOS 

 3.30, the environmental statement SET CLIPPER=F35 to be set or included in the 

 AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and the FILES statement in CONFIG.SYS be set to 35 or 

 higher. (See your DOS manual under AUTOEXEC.BAT, ENVIRONMENT, 

 CONFIG.SYS, and FILES for more information.) 



RPRrVERS.20 allows a maximum of 20 files to be open at one time and will 

 work with any DOS version 2.00 or greater. It requires no changes to your 

 AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files. 



If you have DOS 3.30 or greater, we recommend you alter your 

 AUTOEXEC.BAT to include the SET CLIPPER=F35 line, alter your CONFIG.SYS 

 file to have the FILES = 35 line, and copy RPRIVERS.AO to RPRIVERS.RPT for 

 faster operation of the Rivers Report program. 



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