In our example, Suprtool opens an Allbase database and dumps a table to a self-describing file. The Perl script then checks the Suprtool return codes and sets the browser location to the output file, which displays the script's output. There is a lot more you can do with CGI scripting and Suprtool. You can pass parameters to extract information out of different tables or sets in your database, specify the sort sequence, and vary the selection criteria. And that's not all.
Users can view their reports on the Web, perhaps saving on paper.
And you won't even have to write a user interface. It A Qedit user called with an interesting problem. He had a large data file that was used as input to a program. His first attempt at converting the file was not successful. The file was now significantly smaller than the original file.