Re: tkgnats patch to work with GNATS4

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 22:43 18.11.2001 -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
>   Also, rather than storing the query types in the dbconfig, why not have
> that stuff simply uploaded by QFMT or something? Unless we are going to
> have gnatsd, etc. compile the dbconfig file, the processing time would be the
> same, and then one can keep the query formats with the clients. Also, is
> there a solution to fields which have seperator characters in them?

First of all, let me say a big thank you for working on a TkGnats port.

Query expressions can indeed be uploaded by QFMT. The format strings are 
exactly the same as those that can be given to the query-pr tool. Quoting 
page 82 of the GNATS 4 manual:

QFMT query format
Use the specified query format to format the output of the QUER command. 
The query format may be either the name of a query format known to the 
server, or an actual query format. See "Formatting query-pr output", page 25.

I guess the main reason why the dbconfig file contains a few predefined 
query formats is in order to make query-pr easier to use. Otherwise, one 
would have to provide a complete query format specification on each 
invocation of query-pr.

Yngve Svendsen
GNATS 4 doc guy