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- From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
- Subject: Re: 4D XRef info wanted please
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.182958.18504@mmm.serc.3m.com>
- Organization: 3M Company
- References: <1992Nov11.153356.4961@mmm.serc.3m.com> <1992Nov11.172854.11271@bio.vu.nl>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 18:29:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.172854.11271@bio.vu.nl> rgaros@bio.vu.nl (Rene G.A. Ros) writes:
- >: 4D Xref (I have version 2.0) is basically a REPORTING tool only. It
- >: can't make global changes or anything useful like that :-)
- >There is no tool available which can do these usefull things, or can XRef
- >'print' to a document and use a wordprocessor to search!!??
-
- You can actually save the XREF to a text file, but it comes out in a
- format which you really have to 'parse out' in order to make useful.
- ACIUS includes a database which will "digest" the text file and give you
- something workable.
-
- >: Now if we could just figure out why ACIUS thinks XRef needs it's own
- >: color pallette....
- >I do hope it uses the password settings from the structure file..
-
- Yep, it honors Designer passwords.
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