henk@hcsrnd.UUCP (Henk Willems) (11/29/88)
A few weeks ago I sent this message and got no replies. Is there nobody out there that can answer the following question ? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Our company needs a general purpose report writer and we want to make a make or buy decision within two months. Can anyone out there help us with information about public domain report writers (if there are any) or commercial available products ? Ideally, the report writer we want must support the following features, o User can create report definitions in a WYSIWYG fashion. o Must run in various hardware/software environments (e.g. VAX/VMS, Unix, OS/2, Stratus/VOS). o User interface supports both 'dumb' (e.g. VTxxx type) terminals and workstations. o Is open ended, i.e. does not rely on a particular database or file system. Interfaces to new file systems or databases can be easily added. We must at least be able to add an interface to our own database structure. Any reference to a public domain or commercial product will be appreciated. Thanks in advance D. Dijkman, HCS Industrial Automation P.o. box 20020, 7302 HA Apeldoorn, Holland. Phone (31) (0)55 498600 Email : mcvax!hcsrnd!henk or mcvax!hcsrnd!henk@uunet.uu.net
fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) (12/02/88)
In article <202@hcsrnd.UUCP>, henk@hcsrnd.UUCP (Henk Willems) writes: > Our company needs a general purpose report writer and > we want to make a make or buy decision within two > months. AWK is one answer. Although it is part of UNIX, non-UNIX versions of awk exist these days. It clearly is what you have described and if you look in the book "The AWK Programming Language" (by A., W. and K. of course) they even write a query language processor in one page. -- Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl or uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl