RE: Report writers

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Dear Pascal,
Hi. I am Mohan, working on Forte. We too are trying to use Crystal
reports as an OLE server. I am able to specify the report name to print
but unable to view the report.
Here are the steps followed by me.
1) Crystal Reports was installed.
2) Olegen was run on command prompt. I got the following messages.To be perfectly honest, I don't know much about this. Another person of
our team was responsible for this. He was able to get this working, I
had other responsibilities. I could ask him however. I'll see if I can
come up with a decent answer.
Luck,
Pascal Rottier
Origin Netherlands/Rotterdam

Please check the following links
Report Painter/Writer
report painter and report writer
Regards,
Rajesh Banka
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