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+.TH reportwriter "" "" "/rdb Command"
+.PC "Sample program to write standard reports"
+.B reportwriter
+.PP
+The command
+.B reportwriter
+is a sample shell program that writes a sample standard report.
+It uses the command
+.B splittable
+to divide a table into page-sized tables.
+It shows several tricks for using COHERENT shell programming and
+.B /rdb
+tools to put together reports.
+.SH Example
+Here is what
+.B reportwriter
+produces (with the middle of each page
+replaced with an ellipsis to keep the listing short):
+.B1
+        Prices of Computers that ran UNIX(TM) in 1983
+            From Urban Software of New York City
+                  Report Date: 9 Feb 1985
+.sp
+Price   Company                          City
+-----   -------                          ----
+        Advanced Micro Devices           Santa Clara
+        Alcyon Corporation               San Diego
+        American Telephone & Telegraph  
+        BASIS Microcomputer GmbH         D-4400 Muenster
+        Corvus Systems                   San Jose
+        David Computers Inc.             Kitchener
+        Digital Computers Ltd.           Tokyo 102
+        Heurikon Corp.                   Madison
+ ...
+        Western Digital Irvine
+        Western Electric Corp.  
+  4.2   Venturcom/IBM PC                 Cambridge
+ ...
+ 13.9   Victory Computer Systems, Inc.   San Jose
+.sp
+        Page 1
+.B2
+.SH "See Also"
+.B
+splittable
+.R
+.SO reportwriter