Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!killer!convex!uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: reportwriters wanted Summary: AWK Keywords: reportwriters, databases Message-ID: <1554@ssc.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 88 18:45:34 GMT References: <202@hcsrnd.UUCP> Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 13 In article <202@hcsrnd.UUCP>, henk@hcsrnd.UUCP (Henk Willems) writes: > Our company needs a general purpose report writer and > we want to make a make or buy decision within two > months. AWK is one answer. Although it is part of UNIX, non-UNIX versions of awk exist these days. It clearly is what you have described and if you look in the book "The AWK Programming Language" (by A., W. and K. of course) they even write a query language processor in one page. -- Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl or uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl