EVERHART%ARISIA.decnet@crdgw1.ge.com (10/27/89)
Just a couple comments. The Atari ST emulator appeared on some BBSs in this area awhile back, essentially as posted. I de-warped it and looked HARD for any evidence of function. Conclusion: nothing there. I believe it was warped without the switch that tells WARP to also grab any tracks unused by AmigaDos. Thus all Atari emulation code is gone and all that's left is an IFF picture of an Atari screen. Someone on a local BBS mentioned he had a warp of about 100K bytes of this, which may have it all. The 32KB warp file is useless. SDB is a small and useful database system, but is not relational. In fact it uses flat files for its storage, which will become apparent when you look over the source. Some FTP areas have a couple btree-related items which would appear to be (most of) a small dbms that uses btrees of fixed record size records for its storage. Not Amigatized as far as I know though. There are several other small databases kicking around for various machines, but few use reasonable data structures for large databases (btrees, b+ trees, etc.). The comp.sources.unix btree items look like the best starting point. If your database is small however, something like SDB should be fine. RIM can of course be used, but may not fit in 512K and has a somewhat mainframeish (i.e., user-be-d**ned) interface. When I get time I may try to paste some kind of AREXX command interface onto it to allow a more reasonable front end to be used...unless someone else wants to first. (takers?). RIM can probably be driven by scriptit also, without change. Anyone got the complete Atari ST emulator? (minus the TOS disks of course!) If so please post it! Glenn Everhart Everhart%Arisia.decnet@crd.ge.com