Re: Word Processors and Oracle.

In article <94073.134239MDOWNING_at_ESTEC.BITNET> Michael Downing <MDOWNING_at_ESTEC.BITNET> writes:
>Hello,
>
>I would like to link a word processor running on Windows with an Oracle 7
>database on an IBM mainframe, so that variables can be imbedded in the
>document and the records are retrieved from the database at Print time and
>merged into the document. Has anyone succeeded in doing something similar ?
>
>I am not bothered which word processing software is used, as long as it
>will run on Windows.
>
>I have looked at Oracle Glue and the Oracle ODBC driver, but these seem to
>be more useable with other databases and spreadsheets, they don't seem to
>interface with word processors yet. I may be wrong !!
>
>Any advice about the way to proceed will be gratefully received.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michael Downing.

Michael,

Look into InfoPublisher from PageAhead Software. This is exactly what InfoPublisher does, DBMS access into Work Processing/DTP software. It's really pretty slick. I constructed a Mailing Label routine that does a Word for Windows MailMerge from a SQLServer database.

HTH,
Paul Horan
Dome Systems - Carmel IN Received on Fri Mar 18 1994 - 22:49:03 CET