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Article #438Re: Filemaker exporting summarised data
From: Bob Jenner
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 23:19
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 23:19
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In article <1992Sep29.123441.150@vulcan.resmel.bhp.com.au>, paulm@steelmel.bhp.com.au wrote: > > 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? This can be done using an app. (commercial) called SuperGlue II. > Paul. Cheers Bob Jenner Northern Territory University Darwin, Australia
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bobjenner.ntu.edu.au!user Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases Subject: Re: Filemaker exporting summarised data Message-ID: <bobjen-300992082139@bobjenner.ntu.edu.au> From: bobjen@darwin.ntu.edu.au (Bob Jenner) Date: 30 Sep 92 08:19:37 +0900 Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.databases References: <1992Sep29.123441.150@vulcan.resmel.bhp.com.au> Distribution: world Organization: NTU Nntp-Posting-Host: bobjenner.ntu.edu.au Lines: 34