OpenEuphoria

Re: Starting with Euphoria

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> May 29, 2002
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Derek,

Oh.  Ok.  "Crystal Reports" is not a file format.

rbsmith had written,
>"May I use Crystal reports with Euphoria".

so, rb, did Derek's response answer your question?

 Nope, I don't have *any* experience in COM and SQL parsing, so it would be
way *more* than a good challenge for me to try to write an ODBC driver.
Maybe someone else?

Dan Moyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Parnell" <Derek.Parnell at SYD.RABOBANK.COM>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: RE: Starting with Euphoria


>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Moyer [mailto:DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2002 15:03
> > To: EUforum
> > Subject: Re: Starting with Euphoria
> >
> >
> >
> > What are "Crystal reports"?  If they're some kind of file
> > output, and you
> > know their *format*, there isn't any fundamental reason you
> > couldn't read
> > them in with a Euphoria program and deal with the data via
> > Euphoria code.
> >
>
> "Crystal Reports" is a commercial product one uses to define and create
> reports, fetching the data from a variety of database and file formats. It
> is not a file format in itself. It is often used with an ODBC driver.
>
> It could be that an ODBC driver, as a useful tool to read EDB files, is a
> project that somebody might like to take on - but writing one is quite a
> difficult chore.  If you have had some experience in COM and SQL parsing,
it
> might be a good challenge.
>
> ---------
> Derek
>
>