Re: Are there any good report writers for Informix-Online 5.03?

In <4djot2$8cu@axe.netdoor.com> hboswell@netdoor.com (Harry Boswell) writes: > >MikeSpeed1 (mikespeed1@aol.com) wrote: > >: I've been developing character-based applications using >: Informix 4GL for over a year now. While I do like the >: language, I'm no too crazy about writing reports with >: it. Do any of you know of a good 3rd party report >: writing tool that you would recommend? > >: Please e-mail your responses to me... > >: mikespeed1@aol.com > >Please post any responses - I need this info, also. I'm preparing to look >at Crystal Reports and Reportsmith - other suggestions? > >-- >Harry Boswell hboswell@netdoor.com >Home Page: http://www2.netdoor.com/~hboswell I use a typsetter called Eroff by Elan. It's an enhancement to troff. I insert the typesetting commands in the 4GL program. It may be a little terse, but the output is execellent. A little sample would be FIRST PAGE HEADER PRINT ".TS" # start able PRINT "center box tab(;);" # center a box w/ delimiter of ; PRINT " c c c." # center 3 columns PRINT p_rec.var1 CLIPPED, ";", p_rec.var2 CLIPPED, ";", p_rec.var3 CLIPPED The output when passed through the pre-preprocessor generates postscipt code.GNU also has "groff" which I have used. Eroff just has some more bells and whistles like inserting eps code. Eroff runs about $900. I've been doing this kind of reporting for 5 years and love it ( as do the clients.) Hope this helps, hwill@ix.netcom.com