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Text support in Forms

From: John Roberts <jroberts_at_sanjuan>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 19:02:56 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Mar2.190256.18656_at_sol.UVic.CA> 






Forgive me if this is a repeat, but I think my original post was lost.



I need to be able to handle large amounts of text, often multiple fields
per record, with as much "word processing" functionality as possible.
The application is to be deployed on Unix/dumb term, Mac, and DOS/Windows,
using Forms 3, DBMS 6.



I see a few options:



    
  
  1.   Use a LONG field, and give up text searching and multiple fields.
  
  2.   Use multiple CHAR fields, and deal with coordination.  Better than
   LONG, but still does not do word wrap, cut/paste etc.
  
  3.   Use SQL*TextRetrieval - not available on Mac.
  
  4.   Use an interface to a WP package - the users are varied and have no
   single standard.






So far, #2 looks like the only workable one.  Does anybody have
experience/suggestions that could help me?



Thanks,

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John M. Roberts   jroberts_at_sanjuan.uvic.ca
voice: (604) 384-4131   fax: (604) 384-1194


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