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- From: b912dieg@utarlg.uta.edu (DOUG WITMER)
- Subject: Re: R & R ReportWriter for FoxBase
- Message-ID: <13SEP199219444290@utarlg.uta.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 00:44:00 GMT
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- In article <wolfgang.716238907@sfu.ca>, wolfgang@fraser.sfu.ca (Wolfgang Richter) writes...
- >I am considering use R & R Reportwriter version 4.0 to generate
- >reports from some FoxBase files that I set up. Has anyone used
- >this product? Does anyone have a number I can call to get more
- >information from the vendor (e.g. hardware requirements)?
- >
- >I remember reading reviews about it before dBase IV
- >arrived on the scene with its own report generator. The reviews
- >were quite favourable. Is it still a good product for producing
- >reports? I need the following features in a report writer:
- >- Able to produce reports from more than one dBase file at a time.
- >- Easy-to-use
- >- Able to send to different kinds of printers (e.g. dot matrix,
- > postscript, etc.)
- It's a pretty good package if your requirements aren't too
- exacting. It can produce some kind of a report in short order,
- but getting exactly what you want may take a long long time.
-
- Some observations:
- - R&R is a report writer. It's not a forms generator!
- - There is a fairly small limit (9 or 10) to the number
- of files you can associate with your master file.
- - R&R works with proportional fonts, but if you use them,
- expect to struggle with the formatting.
- - Performance will be poor if the input files are large.
- - The xBase code produced by the optional code generator is not
- completely compatible with the interpreted version of the same
- code.
-
- IMHO program generators are just fine if you can accept what they
- generate. If you need a little more, you are generally better off
- to write your programs from scratch.
-