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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!sun.rhbnc.ac.uk!simon From: simon@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Simon Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Database/forms? Date: 21 Jul 1993 10:19:24 GMT Organization: Univ. of London, Royal Holloway College. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <22j57c$fbi@sun.rhbnc.ac.uk> References: <CADnpp.CAM@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: lt9.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk SSB1PZP@imcvms.med.navy.mil (PERUCCI, PHILIP A.) writes: > Anyone know of a database & forms generator that compiles easily and > works? I see Postgres out there for the database engine, but don't know > what to do for the forms generator. > > There HAS (I hope) to be something! It seems silly to have to rely on > dBASE III+ to do something as basic as maintain a simple database (flat > file). Ultimately, looking for something to: > > 1) Allow specification of file/table (specify field definitions) > 2) Define data entry/edit screen > 3) Handle data entry/edit > > Am I just dreaming? Does nothing like this exist? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Phil Perucci, Systems Programmer | "I don't speak for any organization > ssb1pzp@imcvms.med.navy.mil | and no organization speaks for me" > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ingres89 with Okamoto's patches is about the best bet we've come up with. It's clunky (the code is grim: I have nothing but admiration for the guy who patched it) but it can be coaxed into operation. We have had a working version about 3 weeks. No, I don't know where to get the patch; lots of nice folks mailed it to me. As they are probably mailing it to you... Simon --- "A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion" John Fowles