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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Database program that can easily read/use WP Merge files needed
Keywords: database, labels, WordPerfect
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.155632.25649@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 14 Jun 91 15:56:32 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.221920.10985@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1991Jun13.221920.10985@agate.berkeley.edu> geoff@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes:
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>My fiancee has a lot of WP 5.1 secondary files containing addresses which she  
>would like to use in conjuction with a database program.  She interested in  
>doing sorting and filtering, and being able to generate labels.  It seems like  
>a pretty common need, so I thought someone out there may have some  
>recommendations.

The Wordperfect Company has a database called Dataperfect.  It's "interesting"
in that it has some automatic functions built in that take quite a bit
of work to do in other programs (like case-independent lookups on any
indexed or linked fields, and text-type fields that word wrap in a screen
window), but you only have programming access within a report.  It should
work pretty well for  address lists. You still have to do a report to
generate the merge list, but WP merge is a built-in report type, or you
can roll your own by putting the ^R and ^E into your own report formats.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us