"Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith" writes:
> Thank you for taking the time to explore this for us. I think I'd better
> explain this for you. I need something which will produce data suitable
> for printing out in a table so that the doctor can look at it, and see
> what was taken and when.
>
> Thanks again but shell tools and things aren't what I need; I'm not
> percent enough to handle those and now issn't really the time to learn.
I certainly understand that. I wasn't really sure how far along
you are in exploring what is already there in a unix environment
which you have on a Mac, but it is better to do that when you
have a little time to try things out and reflect on the why of
it all when they don't quite work out as can certainly happen.
> Thank you again.
You are welcome and it is so good that things are looking a
little more up lately.
If you ever want to try out that shell script, the
output it produces is what is called a CSV or Comma Separated
Variable string. It is ugly to look at but many word processors
can take that and turn it in to nice printable columns that line
up as if some master typist had spent all day on it. The part I
knew you would probably want to change was the time and date
catcher.
Sometimes, I have to make a log of blood pressure
readings for my doctor and I wrote something similar because it
is quick and gets the job done, but I've been playing with unix,
now, for a little over 20 years.
Anyway, I hope you find something that does what you
need without too much trouble.
Martin
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