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- From: cs_mj@gsbacd.uchicago.edu (Mark Jaeger)
- Subject: Re: Passing a WHERE clause to Report Writer
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- References: <1992Nov20.021456.903@csc.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:11:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.021456.903@csc.canberra.edu.au>,
- mmr@asgserver.canberra.edu.au (Micheal Rainford-Watson) writes:
- > I'm trying to pass a where clause to report writer to establish a
- > sort of flexible labels program.
- > ...
- > Platform is Ingres SunOS Version 6.3/01 (su4.u42/01)
-
- It seems like getting all the quotes right when using the report writer
- with UNIX is a complete and total nightmare. By the time you've
- expressed enough redundant ones to satisfy 4GL, you're only left with
- enough for the shell to strip off and turn into hash. It seems to me
- that other people in this conference have wrestled with the same
- problem, but I have yet to see the definitive solution.
-
- I have but two suggestions. Add this line to your report writer program:
-
- .SETUP set printqry ;
-
- Then at least you can see what RW is getting.
-
- Also, try getting the shell to echo what it's doing. If you use the
- Bourne shell, invoke it with the "-vx" switch or add "set -vx"
- somewhere; if it's the cshell, use "set verbose; set echo" (maybe in
- your .cshrc file). Then you may be able to see how the parameters are
- getting passed in to the report writer.
-
- --Mark Jaeger internet: cs_mj@gsbvax.uchicago.edu
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