.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):
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        Prices of Computers that ran UNIX(TM) in 1983
            From Urban Software of New York City
                  Report Date: 9 Feb 1985
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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
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        Page 1
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.SH "See Also"
.B
splittable
.R
.SO reportwriter