RE: Looking for report-writer descriptions/evaluations

In message Wed, 16 Feb 1994 21:00:35 GMT,   brent_at_spss.com (Brent Lambert) writes:

> Sorry to cross-post, but it seemed the best way to get the whole audience.
>
> I'm looking for relatively objective descriptions and/or evaluations
> of various report writer s/w for UNIX. Product comparisons would be
> even better. I'm particularly interested in the following:
>
> (a) R & R 's Report writer
> (b) Oracle's Report writer
> (c) Ingres' Report writer
> (d) Informix's Report writer
> (e) Sybase's Report writer
> (f) dBase's Report writer
> (g) Foxpro's Report writer

I just finished a review of FoxFire!, which is a report writer for FoxPro that is written entirely in FoxPro. It allows the user to generate ad-hoc reports quite easily. For a copy of the review and for a demo of FoxFire!, FTP to nstn.ns.ca (137.186.128.11) and have a look in /pub/pc-stuff/foxpro.

/Paul

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