TYPE can be used to send special commands to a printer. Most printer manuals contain lists of codes that can be used to change type styles and a number of other features of printer operation. Normally the preset command is to skip to a new page, so that listings can be done with each county, for example, on a separate page. It executes the command that follows a single time rather than repeatedly. Further details on screen interaction are contained in Chapter 36.
Many situations require the use of summary records to represent more than one person or case.
Sometimes it is handy to be able to use results from an Epi Info table and conduct further processing on the table itself. A local health department may process individual disease reports monthly and place the results in a summary file. The summary file could then be sent to the state or provincial health department, where results from many local departments would be placed in a single file and processed to obtain the total for the state or province. In using the example above, the results would be more useful if they contained a variable giving the number of the week being summarized. Examples are given in reference Chapter 36.