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>
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.
- Use a LONG field, and give up text searching and multiple fields.
- Use multiple CHAR fields, and deal with coordination. Better than LONG, but still does not do word wrap, cut/paste etc.
- Use SQL*TextRetrieval - not available on Mac.
- 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,
-- John M. Roberts jroberts_at_sanjuan.uvic.ca voice: (604) 384-4131 fax: (604) 384-1194Received on Tue Mar 02 1993 - 20:02:56 CET