Date:         Tue, 4 Jul 2006 22:56:56 -0400
Reply-To:     "Richard A. DeVenezia" <rdevenezia@WILDBLUE.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Richard A. DeVenezia" <rdevenezia@WILDBLUE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Should the Spectre reporting macros be Windows compliant?
Comments: To: sas-l@uga.edu

RolandRB wrote:
> I think maybe the two main reporting macros in Spectre should be
> Windows compliant. I don't want to make the Spectre reporting system
> in its fullness Windows compliant because large-scale reporting on
> Windows will not work so well. But I could make the two major
> reporting macros Windows compliant.
>
> If you do not know the two main reporting macros, which are there to
> do the bulk of safety reporting for clinical trials, then you can see
> many examples of their use and their output at these two URLs. It only
> produces plain text output and this is not going to be changed.
>
> http://www.datasavantconsulting.com/roland/spectre/unistats.html
> http://www.datasavantconsulting.com/roland/spectre/npcttab.html

It sounds like you have invested heavily in Unix shell for a variety of
gluing / navel gazing.
Windows based workability might be doable via Cygwin.

An "all systems across the board" external gluing tool would be Perl or
Java -- more likely the former.

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Richard A. DeVenezia
http://www.devenezia.com/