[comp.databases] Btrieve

Steven_Edward_Skindell@cup.portal.com (10/18/88)

Is there anybody out there programming in MicroSoft QuickBASIC and
the Btrieve File Manager that would like to start a users group and
share programming techniques/routines? If interested please leave
mail or call or write Steven E. Skindell, 108 Ruffin Road, Summerville, SC
29483 .......... Phone (803) 821-0855   .... Thank You.

rick@crash.cts.com (Rick Stout) (02/04/90)

Hi folks,

Has anyone heard of a dbms called 'Btrieve'?

I know that they are owned by Novell, and the product is used in
a number of applications such as Platinum accounting software.

Does anyone know if there is a Xenix/Unix version?
If so, ever heard whether it is any good or not?

Thanks!

-Rick
uunet!crash!eysd!rick

ajauch@ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch) (02/06/90)

In article <1358@crash.cts.com> rick@crash.cts.com (Rick Stout) writes:
>Hi folks,
>
>Has anyone heard of a dbms called 'Btrieve'?
>

I have a product on my shelf here that is called Btrieve but it is only a
cataloging system for Xtrieve.  We use it for front ending SQL sessions on
our mainframes, don't know if it is good for anything else...

E-mail me if you want more info and I'll open up the manual for you.

Alex Jauch
UCI, AdCom
ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu

swie@cs.umn.edu (S. T. Tan) (08/11/90)

Is it possible to access Btrieve records in a file server and a workstation
hard disk concurrently ?

Thanks in advance
swie@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu

michael@wicat.UUCP (Mike Weeks) (08/14/90)

swie@cs.umn.edu (S. T. Tan) writes:

>Is it possible to access Btrieve records in a file server and a workstation
>hard disk concurrently ?

Yes.  To quote the netware btrieve 5.0 manual:
"If an application at a workstation makes Btrieve requests to both a local
(nonshared) drive and a network (shared) drive, a copy of either Btrieve
Single User or Btrieve for DOS 3.1 Networks must be loaded at that
workstation, as well as BREQUEST."
I just tried it and it seemed to work fine.

Mike Weeks
Wicat Systems, Inc.
...!uplherc!wicat!michael
 or michael@wicat.UUCP