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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.lang.misc,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: need help choosing between INGRESS and PROGRESS
Keywords: INGRESS, PROGRESS
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Date: 15 May 89 15:14:27 GMT
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In article <2358@canisius.UUCP> elgie@canisius.UUCP (Bill Elgie) writes:
#>In article <24295@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
#>> I haven't used PROGRESS, but I can confirm the weakness
#>> of Ingres' report writer.
#>> 
#>>   [ list of various weaknesses ]
#>>
#> I'm not a fan of INGRES's report writer ( I have never really found one that
#> I did like, actually), but there are actually two of them.
#>
#> Steve's comments all do apply to the screen-painting version.  There is also
#> a much more powerful one based on a pseudo-language  (the screen-painting
#> version actually translates to the pseudo-language and can be dumped and mani-
#> pulated).
#>
#> greg pavlov (under borrowed account), fstrf, amherst, ny

Not sure what you mean by a "screen-painting" version. I'm
writing these reports in the Report-Writer language and
loading them with sreport. If there is a more powerful
report language, why isn't there a manual to describe it?
My suspicion is that you are talking about screens rather
than about reports.

Steve Goldfield