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- From: sjs@netcom.com (Stephen Schow)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: Customization of SQL*Forms.
- Message-ID: <a8bn!an.sjs@netcom.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 23:48:50 GMT
- References: <26AUG199216110680@watson.bms.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- What is all this talk about no more INP files? If they eliminate INP files,
- they better be providing a different text interface. Otherwise they might
- as well be chopping our fingers off. INP files are extremely useful for
- doing automatic things. I can write awk scripts that manipulate them, generate
- them, copy them with global substitutions, etc... More often than not, copying
- an object from one INP file to another is much easier than using the copy
- utilitiy in forms3.0. I can quickly copy an entire form and than do a global
- search and replace to create a similar-yet-different new form.
-
- This list goes on.
-
- I know that Oracle does not support the editing of INP files, but that does
- not take away from their usefullness.
-
- Another great example I just thought of if the use of RCS. I usually check
- my INP files into RCS and therefore have complete revision tracking and
- control. Not only that, but I can have the current revision value
- automatically appear on the form through creative INP usage.
-
- I hope that the right people read this news group and realize that everyone
- I have ever talked to about Oracle on the net does stuff with the INP file
- directly and they are probably making a huge mistake by assuming that
- developers don't want to know about it...unless this is some sort of ploy
- to get us to buy their CASE tools, which many sites can't afford anyway.
-
- COMMENTS ANYONE?
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- Steve Schow | But you don't have to use the claw, if you
- sjs@netcom.com | pick the pear with the big paw paw......
- | Have I given you a clue......?
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