rana@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au (Ranadeva Peries) (11/26/90)
Text Based databases
I am trying to implement a departmental database that would
be used for maintaining student, staff, course, accounts
and other information.
This is to be implemented under unix (SunOS). Most users
of this database would also require to manipulate information
using the standard unix filters such as awk, grep and sed.
Hence the data files would need to be standard ascii text files
with no control information (other than field delimiters) in it.
Does any one know of such a product (or something similar). If
any sources are available (public domain), it would save me a
lot of trouble.
Thanks in advance. Please address your replies to
rana@wacsvax.cs.uwa.oz.au
Ranadeva Peries
Department of Computer Science
University of Western Australia.
Nedlands,
W.A. 6009
kt4@prism.gatech.EDU (Ken Thompson) (02/22/91)
I am interested in sources on the current capabilities of database
systems for storing, manipulating, and retrieving large amounts
of freeform text. I am primarily interested in commercially available
products. It would be nice to be able to do searches without having
to define keywords for each entry in the database. Please reply by
E-mail. I will summarize to the net if there is sufficient interest.
Thanx,
Ken
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