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- This hack came about because a secretarty of limited ability found
- that Microsoft Works was not providing adequate perforamnce for her
- 350 name mail-merge job, and I was asked to solve the problem without
- imposing a more complex system on her.
-
- This project consists of several components:
- 1) A PostScript dictionary that produces the letter. This code is
- in the form of a PREC 103 resource so it is downloaded to the
- LaserWriter prior to the first gsave so it persists across
- multiple pages
- 2) An XCMD, written in C++, which reads Works databases and returns
- the records one at a time.
- 3) An XCMD which takes a string of PostScript and sends it to the
- LaserWriter driver one page at a time.
- 4) A Stack which ties all this together in a relatively simple user
- interface.
-
- The major point of this project is that adding value to a Microsoft
- product is far simpler than one might otherwise suspect.
-
- Jeff E Mandel MD MS
- Dept. of Anesthesia
- Tulane University School of Medicine
- New Orleans, LA 70112-2699
-
- mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu
-