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WASTIT wrote:
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> Howdy Tipsters.
>
> I was wondering if anyone here would be able to give me some help. I would
> be eternally grateful is you could. I am working with FORMS 4.0. For some
> inexplicable reason I can find no way of either saving all the results
> returned by a QUERY. I thought it should be possible, if not by a single
> internal command. then by using ECHO through the HOST command to append
> each row intern into a file. However HOST does not seem to have any effect
> at all on UNIX. WHY?????? I also would like to print all these records from
> inside the form is this possible. All FORMS seems to allow is a screen
> dump. The host command should allow you to do a linne print shouldn't it.
> If you could work out why I am having no success, or possibly give me
> another solution I would be eternally grateful.
Oracle's Report products will do what you want. They are diesigned to accept a query, get the results, and output them in the format you desire - to a printer or file, etc.