Re: Windows and Oracle access.

kmajkut_at_netcom.com (Keith Majkut) writes:
> >
> >I just saw a demo of Reportwriter 2.0. It was really cool. I think they
> >said it should be out by May. The neat thing is, you can use the
> >executables on any machine. Apparantly they use some sort of virtual
> >machine. I can't imagine that it would be the most efficient on all
> >machines, but that's portability for you. It's like a combination of
> >.inp and .frm files.
>
> I'm not sure if you meant to say 'executable' above. I can say for sure that
> none of the Oracle executables is designed in that fashion. What you meant to
> say was that the files produced by SRW are portable across platforms. You
> can simply transfer a file between UNIX/PC/MAC and it will load/run without
> any modification. Also, you could save it to the RDBMS and retrieve it from
> another version of SRW on another platform(I have done both of these myself
> so I know it works).
> SRW will have 3 file formats(.rdf-binary format w/source, .rex-ascii format
> w/source and .rep-binary format w/runtime only).

Sorry! I was foaming at the mouth excited about it, and got sloppy! Do you run it as a virtual machine in the executable, or are you guys actually rewriting the executable for every machine?

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