Hi Nadya,

Stonefield's SDT has database utilities such as you are looking for. As to the ASCII output, for now (v3.1) I'm limiting it to ASCII output of the report form. To get "fancier" would take time I don't have right now. But it is worthy of consideration. I will send up the update here later today; I'll also CC your email, OK?

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>>>Ysterday there was a thread started by Brenda, which lead me to some enhancement ideas of LS. Let's see, if you think, they are worth the trouble.
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>>I missed that thread. LS was talked about?
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> Search by Brenda's messages, you'll find this thread. I explicitly mention LS in its content.
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>>>1) Add ability to LS to list structure of all tables, views in a database. E.g. Database name can be passed as a parameter, and in this case we want to list structure of all its objects.
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>>I have thought of that as a separate APP (listing all database objects) but there are other tools that already do this. BTW, views can be listed now. Just
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>Could you specify them?
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>open the view and run LS. In fact, LS output shows almost all view properties.
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>>>2) Add ability to output to a text file (ideally, to a Word/HTML document) with ability to append or overwrite. In this case we can use LS in a loop (say, using adir(), and create a document describing structure of all tables in a directory).
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>>Interesting. I'm not sure I want to go the HTML/Word route because of the added levels of complexity for what is supposed to be a simple little Command Window utility...but I think I can accomodate ASCII output.
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>Yes, at least the ASCII output with ability to append.
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>Thanks in advance.