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- From: aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt)
- Subject: Re: Display array highlist
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.061814.22106@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <memo.830395@cix.compulink.co.uk> <cortesi.725577273@helium>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 06:18:14 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In <cortesi.725577273@helium> cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi) writes:
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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.
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- >>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.
-
- (I can't believe this hasn't been in there for years!)
-
- >>How does that grab you?
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- >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"
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- I must have missed something really fundamental here, but how does
- run "less ..." work IN A WINDOW???
-
- It takes over the whole screen, right? I want it IN A WINDOW. IN A WINDOW.
- Repeat after me, IN A WINDOW.
-
- >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...
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- Yes, especially on vt100 terminals :-)
- --
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- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu
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- "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."
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