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From: kck@wdl1.UUCP
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Subject: Re: unix spreadsheets?  help!
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Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 03:51:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 26 03:51:10 1987
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My perception is that you may wish to have a database system instead of a 
spreadsheet for the situation you describe.  I worked a while, and had a 
good summer student doing even more work, on using 20/20 for various in-
house things and I agree that the report-writing capability is weak.  If you
have access to Ingres on your unix system you'll find it much more suited to
your needs; if not Oracle might have similar kinds of things.  In general,
not very many people have had success matching Unix into the kind of application
you describe without jumping in with both feet and using databases.