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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
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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
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