jmr@motown.UUCP (John M. Ritter) (01/18/90)
I need to ask some questions of anyone who has considerable experience
with Revelation on a PC. Unfortunately, knowing nothing about it, the
first questions are very broad...
Here's what's prompted the interest: A vendor has offered to sell us
an application written in Revelation. In order to use their specially
designed output reports with data data that already exists in our own
in-house system, we want to download our data into the Revelation
format.
Pretty much every database management system I know has some ability
to load data from a sequential file. Can Revelation do this? The
vendor tells us that although the entire system is written in
revelation, the files we need to update are *not* Revelation files,
but "propriety." They therefore want to charge us embarrassingly large
(and I mean *LARGE*) sums of money to write a program to load data
from a sequential file into their data files.
All this seems like monkey muffins to me, but without buying and
learning Revelation overnight, I don't know enough to tell them to go
pound salt.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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