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- From: dtb@otto (David Bath)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: Windows and Oracle access.
- Message-ID: <dtb.727747658@otto>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 00:07:38 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.174648.29617@oracle.us.oracle.com> <y5ZqXB2w165w@netlink.cts.com>
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- tumidity@netlink.cts.com (Joel Garry) writes:
- >I just saw a demo of Reportwriter 2.0. It was really cool. I think they
- >said it should be out by May. The neat thing is, you can use the
- >executables on any machine. Apparantly they use some sort of virtual
- >machine. I can't imagine that it would be the most efficient on all
- >machines, but that's portability for you. It's like a combination of
- >.inp and .frm files.
-
- They are not executables - they are tokenized files read as DATA by the
- forms, reportwriter or whatever runtime programs. Of course they are
- portable (apart from OS dependent code you write inside them). Even
- Oracle are not that stupid to change data architectures between platforms!
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- David T. Bath Email:dtb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au Phone:+61-3-3477511
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