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INFORM/V User's Guide Printed in U.S.A. HP 3000 Computer Systems HP Part No. 32246-90001 Printed Mar 1988 Edition E0388
The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. HEWLETT-PACKARD MAKES NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WITH REGARD TO THIS MATERIAL, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Hewlett-Packard shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance or use of this material. Hewlett-Packard assumes no responsibility for the use or reliability of its software on equipment that is not furnished by Hewlett-Packard. This document contains proprietary information which is protected by copyright. All rights are reserved. No part of this document may be photocopied, reproduced or translated to another language without the prior written consent of Hewlett-Packard Company. Copyright Æ 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988 by HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY Printing History New editions are complete revisions of the manual. Update packages, which are issued between editions, contain additional and replacement pages to be merged into the manual by the customer. The dates on the title page change only when a new edition or a new update is published. No information is incorporated into a reprinting unless it appears as a prior update; the edition does not change when an update is incorporated. The software code printed alongside the date indicates the version level of the software product at the time the manual or update was issued. Many product updates and fixes do not require manual changes and, conversely, manual corrections may be done without accompanying product changes. Therefore, do not expect a one to one correspondence between product updates and manual updates. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Edition May 1982 A.00.00 Update No.1 Nov 1982 A.00.03 Update No.2 Jun 1983 A.01.01 Second Edition Mar 1985 A.02.02 Third Edition Jun 1986 A.03.05 Fourth Edition Mar 1988 A.03.05 Preface The INFORM/V User's Guide serves as primary documentation for the INFORM/V report writer software. The first ten sections of this guide, like the software they describe, are designed to be used by people who have had limited exposure to databases and may have had some experience extracting data from databases or files. Users are not expected to be programmers or to have more than a rudimentary knowledge of data structures. Section 11 is much more technical in nature. It documents the DICTIONARY/V commands that are used to set up INFORM/V groups and security. This section is designed for use by database administrators, and assumes that the reader has prior experience using DICTIONARY/V. If the capabilities of INFORM/V do not give you sufficient scope to serve more complex reporting requirements, Hewlett-Packard offers a utility program that will convert existing INFORM/V report definitions to REPORT/V programs. Once the definitions have been converted, they can then be expanded or tailored as necessary. See the REPORT/V User's Guide (32245-90001) for documentation of the conversion program. CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS GUIDE NOTATION DESCRIPTION CAPITALS Examples of computer interaction are shown in capital letters. Words that are not underlined represent messages or prompts from the computer. For example: TYPE A NUMBER> UNDERLINING Underlining is used to identify what the user enters. For example, in the line NEW NAME? ALPHA the computer prints NEW NAME? and the user types ALPHA. italics Words in examples that are in lower case italics are general terms which, in real interaction, would be replaced by a specific word or phrase. For example, in CLOSE filename the word CLOSE would appear exactly as shown, but filename would be replaced by the name of a file. [ ] An element inside brackets is optional. ... A horizontal ellipsis in an example indicates that a previous element may be repeated. For example, itemname[,itemname]... means that you can enter several item names, separated by commas. In addition, vertical and horizontal ellipses may be used in examples to indicate that portions of the example have been omitted. RETURN This symbol represents the return key on the terminal keyboard. CONTROLY This symbol means that the user presses the control key and the character Y simultaneously.