Re: Windows and Oracle access.

From: David Bath <dtb_at_otto>
Date: 23 Jan 93 00:07:38 GMT
Message-ID: <dtb.727747658_at_otto>


tumidity_at_netlink.cts.com (Joel Garry) 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.

They are not executables - they are tokenized files read as DATA by the forms, reportwriter or whatever runtime programs. Of course they are portable (apart from OS dependent code you write inside them). Even Oracle are not that stupid to change data architectures between platforms!

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Received on Sat Jan 23 1993 - 01:07:38 CET

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