reedj@hplsla.HP.COM (Reed Jacobsen) (09/06/90)
Does anybody know of a program that will run under unix and create (or at least load) DBase format files? I will be accessing the files over a LAN connection from PC's, but I would like to be able to automate the loading of the databases and that's much easier to schedule on a "real" operating system. Reed Jacobson reedj@hplsla.HP.COM
nol2321@dsacg4.dsac.dla.mil (Jim Dunn) (09/06/90)
>From: reedj@hplsla.HP.COM (Reed Jacobsen) > Does anybody know of a program that will run under unix and create (or at > least load) DBase format files? I will be accessing the files over a LAN > connection from PC's, but I would like to be able to automate the loading > of the databases and that's much easier to schedule on a "real" operating > system. Well, Reed, if you want to use a "real" operating system, then why aren't you using a "real" database? The fact is that this dBASE database file format is NOTHING MORE THAN AN ISAM FILE WITH A HEADER TACKED ON THE TOP! It's not really a database, no more than any FLAT file is! What we need is to standardize on a database type, all this dBASE and dBASE clone stuff is for the birds. And the only answer so far on OUR unix boxes is UNIFY! (yuck!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- C'mon NetLand, how about a VOTE!?! I would put a vote in for B+Trees, or C+Trees; we come up with a database definition, file types, engines, etc... Do all the coding in C so we can port it to PC/BSD/VAX/etc... How about somebody either set me straight, or enlighten me! :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim, jdunn@dsac.dla.mil
mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) (09/09/90)
nol2321@dsacg4.dsac.dla.mil (Jim Dunn) writes: >The fact is that this dBASE database file format is NOTHING MORE THAN AN >ISAM FILE WITH A HEADER TACKED ON THE TOP! It's not really a database, no >more than any FLAT file is! True, but what gives dBase and its various clone implementations the popularity is the flexability of the programming language. Over the three years which I have been using Clipper for MS-DOS dBase applications, there hasn't been a single application I haven't been able to handle in Clipper. MD -- -- Michael P. Deignan, President -- Small Business Systems, Inc. -- -- Domain: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com -- Box 17220, Esmond, RI 02917 -- -- UUCP: ...uunet!rayssd!anomaly!mpd -- Telebit: +1 401 455 0347 -- -- XENIX Archives: login: xxcp, password: xenix Index: ~/SOFTLIST --