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Filemaker exporting summarised data

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From: paulm
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 02:34
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I have a Macintosh running Filemaker (1.0v2) under system 6.0.7.  

I would like to export Filemaker data in a summarised format.  E.g. if I have a
(simple) database that looks like this: 

 Product        Tonnes
 Cold Rolled	71
 Hot Rolled		25
 Hot Rolled  	10


I would like to be able to produce a *file* (cf a report) that looks like this:

Product			Tonnes
Cold Rolled		71
Hot Rolled		35


My understanding is that Filemaker (1.0v2) will only export individual records.
 One suggestion made by an IBM person is that I find out if there is a
Macintosh print driver which will print an ascii file to disk, then print a
copy of a layout in the appropriate format.  Is this possible, or is there an
alternative?

Paul.
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