Re: Display array highlist

In <cortesi.725577273@helium> cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi) writes: >shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming) writes: >>In-Reply-To: <1992Dec21.175031.11266@informix.com> cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi) >>I think a better way would be to arrange to have the report generated >>to a file with the programmer responsible for line and page length. >>Then Informix need only provide a file viewer in a window. The logic ^^^^^^^^^^^ !!!!!!!!!!! >>for this could (should?) be very simple. >>If this idea where implemented along with the dynamic report >>definitions (variables for output target, line and page length) then >>reports could be set up in apps to print on 60 line paper pages, in full >>screen and windowed views. (I can't believe this hasn't been in there for years!) >>How does that grab you? >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" I must have missed something really fundamental here, but how does run "less ..." work IN A WINDOW??? It takes over the whole screen, right? I want it IN A WINDOW. IN A WINDOW. Repeat after me, IN A WINDOW. >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... Yes, especially on vt100 terminals :-) -- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."