[COFF] [TUHS] cut, paste, join, etc. (Grant Taylor)

Rudi Blom rudi.j.blom at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 12:33:41 AEST 2021


I've been maintaining a customer's application which uses C-ISAM as
database interface  on SCOUNIX, TRU64 and HP-UX. Simple and above all
in 'C' ! As wiki says

"IBM still recommends the use of the Informix Standard Engine for
embedded applications"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Informix_C-ISAM

Mind you, the page hasn't seen significant changes since 2006 :-)

Of course not having C-ISAM as a shared library can make executables a
bit big unless included in a custom made shared library which I never
really tried on SCOUNIX, but did on the newer UNIXes. A diskette used
on SCOUNIX for certain offline salvage actions just isn't 'spacious'
enough.

Cheers,
uncle rubl
.
>From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net>
>To: coff at minnie.tuhs.org
>Cc:
>Bcc:
>Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 10:23:35 -0700
>Subject: Re: [COFF] [TUHS] cut, paste, join, etc.
>On 2/18/21 12:32 AM, Peter Jeremy via COFF wrote:
>>I also like SQLite and use it quite a lot.  It is a full RDBMS, it just runs inside the client >>instead of being a separate backend server. (BDB is a straight key:value store).
>
>Fair enough.
>
>I was referring to an external and independent daemon with it's own needs for care & >feeding.
>.
>>One file.  I often ship SQLite DB files between systems for various reasons and agree >>that the "one file" is much easier that a typical RDBMS.
>
>*nod*
>
>--
>Grant. . . .
>unix || die


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