scott@boake2.UUCP (Scott Boake) (06/12/89)
I'm on the market for an easy to use / powerful set of packages to handle 1 - Indexed File access, 2 - Screen Handling, 3 - Report Generation and 4 - SQL. So far I've come across C-Tree, R-Tree and D-Tree from Faircom. The C-Tree looks great as does the D-Tree (Display stuff) the R-Tree looks a little week but for some quick and dirty reports may be fine. Just write the more complex stuff in C. But they don't have a SQL package (yet?) I was woundering if anyone has comments on the packages or similar packages and would care to share them.... I've also been looking at various DBMS packages for higher end applications but I DO like to ability to port the Faircom packages to ANY cpu I want plus I have source! Comments please! Thanks in advance. ----Scott Scott Boake Palantir Systems Inc. scott@boake2 P.O. Box 2142 ..!uunet!pdn!boake2!scott 5030 - 78th Ave North Ste. 10 +1 (813) 544 - 8152 Pinellas Park, FL 34664
steinar@fdmetd.uucp (Steinar Overbeck Cook) (06/13/89)
In article <266@boake2.UUCP>, scott@boake2.UUCP (Scott Boake) writes: > ...... > The C-Tree looks great as does the D-Tree (Display stuff) the R-Tree looks a > little week but for some quick and dirty reports may be fine. Just write the > more complex stuff in C. But they don't have a SQL package (yet?) > The problem with R-tree is that it is rather limited in handling datamodels in which you have several sibling nodes. I.e. if your datamodel is designed thus : person ! +------+-------+ ! ! ! child terminal abcde R-tree has problems with reporting all the entities which belongs to 'person'. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it is rather akward. In general I would say that R-tree is a little unfinished yet, the documentation reflects this too. Regarding C-tree, I do agree, it is a good package, easy to use, easy to install and with good documentation. -- Steinar Overbeck Cook, Fellesdata a.s, P.O. Box 248, 0212 OSLO 2, NORWAY Phone : +47 2 52 80 80 Fax : +47 2 52 85 10 E-mail : ...!mcvax!ndosl!fdmetd!steinar or steinar@fdmetd.uucp <The opinions expressed, if any, do not represent Fellesdata a.s>