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From: ericbr@microsoft.UUCP (Eric Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Want DBMS capable of proportionally-spaced reports....
Message-ID: <8171@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 00:08:53 GMT
Reply-To: ericbr@microsoft.UUCP (Eric Brown)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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I'm looking for a database or forms package that runs under MS-DOS that 
can produce proportionally spaced output with multiple columns.  In 
particular, some columns in the output will spread across multiple lines,
and these items need to be word-wrapped within a column.  Some example 
lines are below:

|  10/81  | $5000  | Purchased gizmo from Gizmo Corp.   |  bla bla bla
|  11/81  | $10000 | took out loan from US Gizmo Bank   |  bla bla bla
|         |        | for gizmo refurbisher machine      |

Note that the columns are fixed width, but the text should be
proportionally spaced and may occupy more than one line.  Also, I need
to generate subtotals on each page, and a grand total on a separate
page.

Is this doable with any current DBMS package?
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