brennan@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mary Ann Brennan) (10/13/87)
We are wondering if anyone has tried to create a set of C functions to login on a remote machine, do an INGRES query and return the results to the calling function. Ideally we would like to be able to use EQUEL within our applications, but the number of workstations makes that a costly choice -- we won't use unlicensed copies of INGRES. We would want the remote login to be transparent to the application writer, and would want to be able to handle ad-hoc queries restricted only by the application writer's choice. To make the problem somewhat easier, we would only be interested in using such functions on a set of machines which have the same binary number representations -- a set of SUNs on NFS. If anyone has experience or an opinion -- either positive or negative -- on the difficulty of making such functions with a relatively easy to understand interface I would appreciate hearing from you. Any ideas? Replies either directly to me, brennan@seismo.CSS.GOV, or to this newsgroup (if it is not too much traffic) are fine, I'll post a summary of direct replies if there is interest. Thanks, Mary Ann Brennan
zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon) (10/16/87)
Sounds like you are trying to build something like Britton Lee's database machines. -- -- Art Zemon By Computer: ...!hplabs!felix!zemon By Air: Archer N33565 By Golly: moderator of comp.unix.ultrix