Re: Display array highlist

In-Reply-To: <cortesi.725577273@helium> cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi) TITLE: Re: Display array highlist In <cortesi.725577273@helium> David Cortesi writes: [Stuff deleted] > The latter (ability to use variables in the OUTPUT section) is > generally accepted as a Good Idea, I think. As to the file viewer > window, why do you want Informix to reinvent the browser > that exists on every platform already (and probably do it wrong :) > when you could just, for example, RUN "less /tmp/report.01" OK, fine for full screen paging. The original contributer was looking for scrolled reportd in a window. I would imagine something like: OPEN WINDOW win1, AT 3, 3 WITH 10 ROWS, 40 COLUMNS PAGE <textfile> I don't believe that the compiler should be responsible for checking line lengths, simply foreshortening long lines should be ok, that would make the implementation easier anyway. > Or under a GUI, > RUN "/usr/openwin/bin/textedit /tmp/report.01" WITHOUT WAITING > You could even pass -Geometry arguments... that should impress the troops... Maybe, I wouldn't know. | I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way -- Jessica Rabbit | |------------------------------------------------------------| | Stuart Hemming | shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk | | Tudor Labels Ltd | uunet!cix.compulink.co.uk!shemminga | | Roman Bank Bourne | Tel : (+44) 778 426444 | | Lincs PE10 9LQ. UK. | Fax : (+44) 778 421862 | Stuart |8-)