HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: brians@telebit.com (Grant Brians)
Subject: Info on collection Dbase setups
Keywords: Collections, Dbase, formats
Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Distribution: US
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:08:17 GMT

I am a collector of stamps, records and books who has a copy of Dbase IV
for my PC. I also have a copy of my records database which I converted
from HPImage several years ago. Unfortunately the copy never worked in 
Dbase. I am now ready to attack the problem of designing databases for my
collections again. 
	Problem 1: anyone have good tips on how to deal with my converted 
record records?
	Problem 2: Anyone have good recommendations on templates for book
and stamp databases using Dbase?
	Problem 3: Does anyone know of a good public domain or shareware 
setup for cataloging stamps which is not tied to a particular country's 
stamp catalog? I.E. it is not one of the commercial packages which focus
on a list of the catalog values of say, US stamps and substitutes a slick
interface for the ability to enter the individual numbers of Mint, used, 
On cover stamps, etc.

Please reply via email to me at brians@telebit.com with any pertinent info.
			Grant
From: yongyan@amb4.ese.ogi.edu (Wang Yongyan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Need info. on buying unix based database
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:48:27 GMT
Organization: Center for Coastal and Land-Margin Research
Originator: yongyan@amb4.ccalmr.ogi.edu

I am finding some database tool to manupulate the large scientific calculation 

results. The size of the data file looks like 50 (column) x 100,000 (row). From

my experience of working on Dbase III /PC version, I profer some software having

the same function and same language. I want your suggestion on 


a> the software package 

b> description and experience on them

c> price



Thanks in advance


Yongyan Wang


 
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: rodney@tyrell.tynet.sub.org (Rodney Volz)
Subject: Re: Do Paradox and LANtastic play nice together?
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 22:14:15 GMT
Organization: Tyrell, Stuttgart (FRG)

In article <Bu2r28.9s@world.std.com> brigc@world.std.com (Brig C McCoy) writes:
>Had a friend ask me about how to set up his copy of Paradox (3.5) 
>to work with LANtastic. Looking at the Paradox docs, I find refs
>for Novell and 3com, but that's it. Does anyone know whether
>LANtastic is enough like Novell or 3com that Paradox will work?

Junk LANTastic. For me, it didn't work with dbase, nor with wordperfect
or Lotus. All programs ran, but LANtastic had added some ugly "features"
I didn't see without LANtastic.

(my opinion; yours may vary)

-Rodney
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From: ashmor@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Robert Ashmore III)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.ingres
Subject: Can anyone help w/ Ingres Link Modules
Date: 11 Sep 1992 19:08:50 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS
NNTP-Posting-Host: studsys.mscs.mu.edu

Here is the question:

What are the proper procedures to implement shared libraries
for Ingres Link Modules on an RS/6000 running AIX?

Thanks in advance for any help that you can offer.
-- 
Robert B. Ashmore III               |       "We are only immortal 
ashmor@studsys.mscs.mu.edu          |        for a limited time."   -  N.P.
From: DEVRIES@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU (Ernie DeVries)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Do Paradox and LANtastic play nice together?
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:38:04 GMT

Your friend should call up the Borland Tech Fax service (800/822-4269).
The last time that I checked the index document, there was not one listed
for LANtastic, but they did have one for Netware Light & the instructions
were right on.  I would imagine that although the details might change,
the concepts will be the same for any peer-to-peer network so even the
Netware instructions might be worth looking at.
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From: jkim@ece.arizona.edu (Jinwoo Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Intelligent Document Retrieval
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:41:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: arizona.1992Sep4.154158.3663
Distribution: world,local
Organization: U of Arizona Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dear Netters,

Does anyone have information about intelligent(?) document
retrieval?  If the user provides a set of documents,
it searches data base or document base using keywords and
find more documents which are relevant to the user input
document. It seems to me that Semantic Net or Neural Net
can be solved this problem (even Genetic Algorithm).

Any comments/references are very much welcomed!

Thanks a lot in advances

      Emil:      jkim@helios.ece.arizona.edu
From: awerman@panix.com (Aaron Werman)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: OS/2 database manager + Borland C++: has anyone linked them in DOS?
Date: 12 Sep 92 01:31:01 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

OS/2 database manager comes with a MS-DOS requester library. This is linkable 
into a Microsoft C application. Microsoft C libraries are generally not linkable
with Borland (differing LIB formats), and even if the object files are 
extracted, they use a different set of low level primitives.

Despite this, it is possible in some cases to link BC and MSC together.
I am starting a project in which I would prefer to work in Borland. I am hoping
that a victim has volunteered to attempt to link to Borland (C++ 3.1 or
anything else) and knows if it is possible.

	Thanks in advance,
		Aaron
From: ve4drk@muug.mb.ca (Dan Keizer)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Progress database users out there?
Date: 7 Sep 92 18:07:05 GMT
Organization: Manitoba Unix User Group, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

I haven't seen much in the way of discussion on Progress, just some
comments on differences between different DB's.  Is anyone using it
to any great extent?  I'd be interested in knowing what sort of
readership is out there for it.  Being fairly new to progress, I'm not
all that familiar with what support services are out there other than
what progress itself provides.  Any user groups or other sources?
Thanks for any info.  If there's an interest, I can summarize what I
find out.
Thanks.
Dan.

-- 

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dan Keizer, VE4DRK      ve4drk@pc.ve4drk.ampr.org [44.135.124.25]
ve4drk@muug.mb.ca       VE4DRK@VE4KV (AX.25) Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: durai@ORTTA (Appadurai V.)
Subject: Re: FoxPro 2.0 SHOW GETS
Organization: U of Mn
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:34:43 GMT

In article <Bu6K0E.EqI@acsu.buffalo.edu> psbayer@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul S. Bayer) writes:


>In using FoxPro 2.0 I've run across a small problem with the Show Gets
>command. I have a window with data entry and when I padvance to either the
>next one or the last, first or previous - it the screen does NOT change.
>I can post the code,but I was hopnig someone had run into thistrouble
>before.... I'm using the SHOW GETS command after teh CASE statement. I've
>tried using the Trace window, it passes the SHOW GETS statement, READS THE
>STATEMENT, but does NOT refresh the screen. I know it's advancing because I
>have the status line active, but it doesn't show up on the screen.


>ANY IDEA'S???


Did you check the "refresh" box for the fields ?  You can only refresh "say" 
fields.

If you are trying to refresh "get" fields you have to mention "show gets <
field> enable", not just show gets.
From: rwatson@alsvid.une.edu.au (Richard Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: dbase file formats - summary
Date: 7 Sep 92 07:44:32 GMT
Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)

Recently I enquired about dbase file formats.

I recieved a number of posts. _THANKS_

Here is what I got:

A few respondants reconnended:
	Rick Spence
	Clipper Programming Guide
	Microtrend Books 1989  

Also worth looking for (no promises though) is
	Walden, Jeff
	File Formats for Popular PC software
	Wiley, 1989

I also recieved some code to access .dbf and .ndx files from
 William Wilson (wew@naucse.cse.nau.edu) - here is his README:
----------------------------
 
Using the ndx programs

Background

It took me near to a month in time to decipher the way dBASE uses .ndx files.
Given that, if the code is used in any commercial or money making ventures,
please send me $10 to register the code.  The .ndx file format is not 
published or disclosed by any of the xBASE language developers.  As a 
minimum, my name must be included in any code that the .ndx utilities
are included in.  It must also appear in your documentation.


Specifics

The files included with this set are:

readme.ndx    This file.
chkndx.c      A utility to check the index key string.
dbndx.c       A sample program showing how to parse a file using the index.
dbndx.h       A header file used with the sample programs.

You may use the sample to code to learn how to manipulate the .ndx files
with dBASE databases.

I also have sample code that shows how to read and write dBASE III & IV
memory variable save files.


William E. Wilson
Box 1215 
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
------------------------------


good luck

Richard
-- 

Richard Watson	 e-mail:rwatson@alsvid.une.edu.au   phone:+61 66 203625
Centre for Computing & Maths, UNE-Northern Rivers, Lismore, AUSTRALIA
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Yet Another Simple (?) Question on Paradox
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:18:10 GMT

blackman@math.tau.ac.il (Blackman Uri) writes:

>Using CoEdit instead of Edit won't allow you to open a blank record.

Sure it will, *as long as there isn't another blank record in the database*.
Your PAL script must account for (possibly removing) blank records; but you
*can* coedit a blank record.  That is how you add detail records on a
multi-table form.  The detail area is always empty at first.

-JTT
From: Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: looking for record locking techniques
Date: 14 Sep 92 09:22:21 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> James H. Coombs writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <1992Sep13.012730.9579@cs.brown.edu>
> Posted: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 01:27:3
> 
> Org.  : IRIS - Brown University
> 
> In article <15077@mindlink.bc.ca> Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa
> Sandberg) writes:
> 
> >Would you consider moving into the 90's with a non-locking database?
> >Perhaps you've heard of chronological databases, such as (old and hairy)
> >LOGIX and of late, InterBase. My company does custom distributed
> >wide-area networks, with frequent interruptions, and non-locking
> >schemes beat locking ones, for performance and reliability. The
> 
> Could you give us references?  Or a description of the techniques?  You
> know, in the spirit of the Internet and not advertising?
> 
> --Jim

Sorry, wasn't advertising. Last ref I have for Interbase is (408)431-5120.
Last ref I have for LOGIX is (617)864-0137. Last major batch of articles
I saw on it was in IEEE Reliable Systems Symposium (conf. proc) 1990.
Sorry not to have more specifics on hand; go to your nearest univ. library
and hit the IEEE journals on distributed databases, or SIGMOD proceedings.

Description of techniques? Every record has an absolute timestamp.
You keep old versions (think of the timestamp as an extension of
the primary key) back at least as far as the oldest pending reference.
All transactions are allowed to proceed; at the end of a transaction,
the timestamps as of the start of the transaction are all compared with
the current timestamps of each row. If they differ, the transaction
rolls back and restarts; and "tough luck what now?"
is sent back to the client, after (n) restarts. In any case,
high-activity queries and low-activity updates don't interfere with
one another; "select count(*) from TABLE" can merrily chug along
searching for rows with timestamps no greater than asof the start
of the query, while new versions (and deletion markers) with fresher
timestamps are inserted.

Depends upon how you implement it, but your transaction log and your
pending versions can be the same thing. Consistent backups can be running
while the database is being updated. Also depends on how version
garbage-collection is done, but you can request a view of a table "asof" a
given timestamp. This was true for LOGIX; not sure what depth of versions
is kept in Interbase (Nigel?)
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                 or uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Mischa_Sandberg
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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Physicists think reality is an approximation of the equations.
Mathematicians never make the connection.
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: mendel@db.toronto.edu (Alberto Mendelzon)
Subject: CFP: Brazilian Symposium on Databases 
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:52:41 GMT


=======================================================================

                      CALL FOR PAPERS


            VIII BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON DATABASES

           Campina Grande, PB  /  12 - 14 MAY 1993


The Brazilian Symposium on Databases is an annual event, promoted
by the Database Committee of the Brazilian Computer Society
(SBC). The 1993 symposium will be held at the Federal Uni-
versity of Paraiba in Campina Grande. For the first time the
Symposium will have an international program committee.

The objective of the symposium is to gather researchers,
professionals and students in the area of databases and related
areas, in order to promote discussion about research and
development of prototypes and products in the area. Subjects
of discussion includes topics as non-conventional databases,
object-orientation, active, temporal and deductive databases,
and knowledge bases; formal and theoretical aspects as well as
implementation and optimization problems or design techniques.
The symposium program includes paper presentations, tutorials,
prototype presentations and demonstration of commercial products.


PAPER SUBMISSION

Send 4 (four) copies of your paper to the program chair.
Papers submitted should contain up to 15 pages and short communi-
cations, up to 3 pages. Proposals for tutorials and short courses
are wellcome as well. Additional details will be given in the final
call for papers or can be obtained from the general chair or
program committee chair.


INSTRUCTIONS FOR DEMOS

There will be two kinds of demostrations:

1) Non-commercial prototypes. They should be related to a
   submitted paper or communication;
2) Commercial products. For exposition of commercial products,
   please contact the general chair.

Proposals must clearly state the support needed (equipment and
services) at symposium site.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Sonia Schechtman Sette (UFPe) - chair
Alberto H.F. Laender (UFMG)
Alberto Mendelzon (University of Toronto)
Cirano Iochpe (UFRGS)
Colette Rolland (MASI, Universite Paris I)
Geovane Magalhaes (UNICAMP & CPQD/Telebras)
Pedro Silveira (UFRJ)
Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas at Arlington)
Rosana Lancelotti (PUC/Rio)
Ulrich Schiel (UFPb)
Victor Vianu (UCSD)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Francilene Procopio
Joseluce F. Cunha
Helio de Menezes Silva
Marcos Salerno de Aquino
Maria de Fatima Turnell
Pedro Sergio Nicoletti
Ulrich Schiel

PROGRAM CHAIR

Sonia Schechtman Sette
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Departamento de Informatica
Av. Prof. Luis Freire, s/n
50740-514 Recife / PE  -  Brazil
E-MAIL: SSS AT DI.UFPE.BR


GENERAL CHAIR

Ulrich Schiel
Federal University of Paraiba
Departamento de Sistemas e Computacao
C.P. 10106  -  58109 Campina Grande/Pb  BRAZIL
Phone: ++55 83 333 1929
E-mail: 8-sbbd at brufpb2.bitnet


IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due:    20. Nov. 1992
Notification:  21. Dec. 1992
Final version: 15. Feb. 1993
From: johnl@obelix.informix.com (Jonathan Leffler)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
Subject: Re:  RCS headers in 4gl
Date: 14 Sep 92 11:33:08 GMT
Reply-To: johnl@obelix.informix.com (Jonathan Leffler)
X-Informix-List-ID: <list.1443>

>Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 13:54:36 EDT
>From: Livsey Renee <uunet!cphpdev1.homedepot.com!prl01>
>Subject: RCS headers in 4gl and HP Termcap
>X-Informix-List-Id: <list.1428>
>
>We are looking for ways to utilize RCS in our 4GL.  The header information
>will not display an ident after it is checked out.

What do you mean?

My understanding of RCS (based on rather limited experience of it -- I use
SCCS by preference) is that if you incorporate something like: $Header:$
into your source file and then place the file under RCS control with ci,
then when you next check it out with co, you will find something like:

$Header: /home/johnl/tmp/RCS/x,v 1.2 14/09/92 11:07:59 johnl Exp $

in your source, at exactly where you left the original.
If the original is in a comment, the expanded version will be in the same
place.  If the original is in a string, it will be in the string, and
the string will be found in the executable too, so ident(1) will find it.

Yours,
Jonathan Leffler (johnl@obelix.informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
From: seeb@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dick Seebach)
Subject: Re: ESQL/C Question -- char or varchar columns padded?
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Warren NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 11:45:22 GMT
Keywords: char type, varchartype, strings not null terminated?

In article <Sep.9.14.37.38.1992.23046@gauss.rutgers.edu> manmetha@gauss.rutgers.edu (Rajesh Malhotra) writes:
>
>Fellow Informix'ers,
>
>	In ESQL/C, when you retrieve a column of type char or varchar,
>is the data padded with spaces at the end? Is there a way to 
>retrieve NULL terminated strings like a normal C program would
>expect?
>
>	Any and all responses appreciated,

For strings of type char (I don't use varchar), the strings retrieved
are padded with spaces.

To avoid having strings padded, use the 'string' definition for
the field; i.e.

string	filename[14];

This is documented in the RDSQL Data Types chapter of the
ESQL/C Programmer's Manual for Version 2.10.
Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
From: ashaw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (andrew.shaw)
Subject: SPINCNT advice requested
Keywords: online performance
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:52:17 GMT

I am running OnLine 4 on a Sun690 with 4 processors.  The OnLine
documentation suggests using "sunldmod" and setting SPINCNT=1200
in the dbconfig file.  I have done this and performance has doubled.
The documentation also suggests that while 1200 is "a good starting
value", the best value is application-dependent.  Can anyone give me
some hints as to what this parameter actually does?  Is performance
supposed to change linearly, or do I have to search the entire space
to find the optimum value?  Any pointers would be appreciated.

	Thanks,
		Andrew Shaw	AT&T Bell Labs
From: maint72@saad-emh1.ARMY.MIL (Michael Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
Subject: RE: Where's my reverse field?
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:58:09 GMT
Reply-To: maint72@saad-emh1.ARMY.MIL (Michael Gordon)
X-Informix-List-ID: <list.1435>


 
 
FOR: Bruce Momjian (root@candle.uucp)
 
 
> I have a field on a form I have specified as REVERSE, but it just comes
> up blank.  I know Informix knows about the reverse video on my terminal
> because my menus come up reverse.  In fact, I have some Informix
> executable from another person and its fields are reverse.  Does anyone
> know why this is happening?  Below is my form description file.
> I have tried this from the console, from an xterm, and from a vt220. 
> None work.  I am just starting out and this is my first form.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> database formonly
> screen
> {
>                        Summary of Client/Matter Activity
                        
                        
>                As-of Period [a]
                                
> }
> end
> attributes
> a = formonly.begdt TYPE CHAR, REVERSE;
> end
> instructions
> delimiters "<>";
> end
                                
> -- 
> Bruce Momjian                      |  830 Blythe Avenue
> root%candle.uucp@bts.com           |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 
>                                    |  (215) 353-9879(w)  853-3000(h)
> Press <CTRL-D> to Return to MENU 
 
Bruce,
 
Your form looks good with the exception of the ATTRIBUTES line a =
 
I don't know about using data field types in the attributes code, try
this modification:
 
a = formonly.begdt, REVERSE; {autonext, upshift, other attributes}
Everything else looks good, and should fly.  Good luck.
 



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From: jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
Subject: SE version 4.00 vs. NFS
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:20:22 GMT
Organization: Ahlstrom Filtration - Chattanooga,TN

Some time ago we made a decision based on the fact that some of Informix's
files coule reside on directories which are NFS mounted.  Also, the 
decription of the IN clause of the CREATE TABLE command seems to indicate
that the directory used can be on an NFS mounted directory.

But, when I try to use a table that has been put on an NFS mounted directory,
I get the error "ISAM: can't use nfs".

Is informix really checking to see if NFS is in use?  Or am I doing something
wrong?  Heck, a while back someone from Informix even told me that THEY
used Informix with stuff tucked into NFS mounted directories, so it must be
possible.

Thanks.
------------- 
James B. O'Connor                                     jim@tiamat.fsc.com
Information Technology Manager                        voice 615/821-4022 x651
Ahlstrom Filtration, Inc.                             fax   615/821-0616
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