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- From: mrb@earth.wustl.edu (Mike Bray)
- Subject: Do it yourself mail merge?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.063242.3151@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 06:32:42 GMT
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- I need to generate reports from data in an Oracle database, either
- using PRO*C or the DBkit or both. I have form letters that I need
- to poke information into. The current implementation on another
- system works fine with standard mailmerge commands. What's a good
- way to do this? Hook up a text object to scan for <<labels>> and
- insert data? Perl? OraPerl? Commercial or public objects? WriteNow?
- I figured I could simply message WriteNow from my application and have
- it do the merge and return the results, but their tech support says I
- can't do that.
-
- Any ideas?
-
- Thanks,
- Mike Bray mrb@earth.wustl.edu
-