Re: 4D XRef info wanted please

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From: Paul E. Jacoby
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:29

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In article <1992Nov11.172854.11271@bio.vu.nl> rgaros@bio.vu.nl (Rene G.A. Ros) writes:
>:   4D Xref (I have version 2.0) is basically a REPORTING tool only.  It
>:   can't make global changes or anything useful like that :-)
>There is no tool available which can do these usefull things, or can XRef
>'print' to a document and use a wordprocessor to search!!??

You can actually save the XREF to a text file, but it comes out in a
format which you really have to 'parse out' in order to make useful.
ACIUS includes a database which will "digest" the text file and give you
something workable.

>:   Now if we could just figure out why ACIUS thinks XRef needs it's own
>:   color pallette....
>I do hope it uses the password settings from the structure file..

Yep, it honors Designer passwords.

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Subject: Re: 4D XRef info wanted please
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