noob questions

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

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On Feb 21, 2005, at 7:51 PM, Mikey wrote:

> So I ask again, where are the manuals?  I have yet to see a tool that
> doesn't have manuals available for inspection in a pre-sale mode.

Well, you have now!

Actually, there is a 3rd party book called "Software at the Speed of 
Thought" which has been highly recommended by numerous members of this 
list (I do not have this book myself), look at the left edge of the 
RunRev web site (on the home page) to find a link to purchase that book 
from RunRev.  They sell it for $37.

The author of that book is on this list, too.


You could also look at the "Topics" section of the online 
documentation, or search the list archives when you need specific 
information.


>>> 6) Report writer - not included with the demo, need to know more.
>> Report writing is not a strength with Rev. You can do some basic stuff

Indeed, no integrated report editor.  There used to be something very 
simplistic and basically useless, so it was removed starting with Rev 
2.5.

Depending on your needs, there are built-in Transcript commands which 
are quite adequate for reporting when printing from a Mac, and 
sometimes work out when printing from Windows, too.

There are some font issues when printing within Windows which sometimes 
do and sometimes do not cause major headaches.  I actually wrote a 
little wrapper external for the Win32 GDI (for the parts I needed 
anyway) and wrote a Win32 API printing function in Transcript, which is 
specific to my current project, in order to work around some of the 
problems I was having when printing in Windows.  I still use the 
built-in stuff for printing on the Mac, though, and for some of the 
Windows printouts, since it was only really one type of printout I 
couldn't get working for Windows.  Basically, if the overall layout is 
static and doesn't have page components moving around depending on 
complex parameters, you should be able to get it working fine 
cross-platform, otherwise there may be some issues for Windows 
printing.  It always works fine on the Mac.

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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$
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