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- From: cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Display array highlist
- Message-ID: <cortesi.725577273@helium>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 21:14:33 GMT
- References: <memo.830395@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming) writes:
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- >In-Reply-To: <1992Dec21.175031.11266@informix.com> cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi)
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- >I think a better way would be to arrange to have the report generated
- >to a file with the programmer responsible for line and page length.
- >Then Informix need only provide a file viewer in a window. The logic
- >for this could (should?) be very simple.
-
- >If this idea where implemented along with the dynamic report
- >definitions (variables for output target, line and page length) then
- >reports could be set up in apps to print on 60 line paper pages, in full
- >screen and windowed views.
-
- >How does that grab you?
-
- The latter (ability to use variables in the OUTPUT section) is
- generally accepted as a Good Idea, I think. As to the file viewer
- window, why do you want Informix to reinvent the browser
- that exists on every platform already (and probably do it wrong :)
- when you could just, for example, RUN "less /tmp/report.01"
-
- Or under a GUI,
- RUN "/usr/openwin/bin/textedit /tmp/report.01" WITHOUT WAITING
- You could even pass -Geometry arguments... that should impress the troops...
-