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From: wmuhanna@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Waleed A Muhanna)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: [soc.culture.arabic] Announcing IslamicTimer (Release 2.0)
Followup-To: soc.religion.islam
Date: 7 Jan 1993 23:44:49 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
X-Original-Newsgroups: soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.turkish,soc.culture.bangladesh
X-Original-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:43:08 GMT

Archive-name: auto/soc.culture.arabic/Announcing-IslamicTimer-Release-2-0


Release 2.0 of the IslamicTimer software package is now available via 
anonymous ftp from snake.mcs.kent.edu (IP address: 131.123.2.222).  
The distribution is in a compressed shar (shell archive) file named 
"/pub/IslamicTimer-2.0.shar.Z".  The new release includes a couple of 
very minor fixes and a new program, called PREMIND, which provides 
prayers time reminder/notification service on UNIX platforms.

In addition to PREMIND, IslamicTimer includes programs for generating 
Islamic (Hijri) Calendars, translating Gregorian/Julian dates to/from dates
in the Islamic Calendar, computing prayer time schedules, and for determining
the direction of the Qiblah.  

The software should be fairly portable and it should run on any UNIX
system.  If you have to make any changes to files other than the Makefiles 
to make these programs work on your machine/compiler, please contact me and
tell me where I goofed.

All the programs are Copyrighted.  Permission for nonprofit use and 
redistribution of the software and its documentation is granted without 
fee.

Please send your comments, suggestions, fixes, and additions to me:

	Waleed A. Muhanna
	P.O. Box 151048
	Columbus, OH 43215
	wmuhanna@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

Large sums of money can also be sent to me, although at this time I'd
suggest you send your donations to a Relief Fund for the people suffering
in Somalia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Palestine, and/or to your favorite
charity.

Salaam,

Waleed Muhanna
Tuesday 5 Rajab 1413 A.H.
December 29, 1992


Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin
From: eanders@sura.net (Eric Anderson)
Subject: Re: mucho out of date archies?
Organization: SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA, NA, Earth, Milky Way
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:29:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.024058.632@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
>In article <1idviqINNjg3@nigel.msen.com> emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>>rumor has it that some archie server sites are still trying to sync their
>>files off of the mcgill server, and as such are some number of months
>>behind the times.  truth?  fiction?  you decide.  (and fix too please
>>if it's possible)
>
>	Hmmm, that might explain archie not being able to find some things
>today.  (FYI, my default archie server is at SURAnet.)
No, this wouldn't explain the problem, the SURAnet server has never sync'd
off of another site, we retrieve all of the listings ourselves.   

It is possible that the site which had the file you were looking at had
not been updated yet.  We update our sites on about a monthly basis, any more
than that would put too much of a load both on the archie machine and on
all of the anonymous ftp servers.  It is also possible that the site is
simply not in the database, this can happen because we don't add things
to the database unless requested by the site themselves.

However since you have had a problem, I would ask you to send mail to
archie-admin@sura.net describing what you were looking for, and we
can see if the problem is still happenning.

Indeed if anyone has a problem using our server, they should send mail
to archie-admin@sura.net.  If you have a problem using another server,
you should be able to reach those people by sending mail to 
archie-admin@<their archie machine>
--
Eric Anderson                      eanders@sura.net
SURAnet Operations                 +1 301 982 4600
--
"I'm done with finals.  I don't have to think"


-- 
          -Eric 
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin
From: bogstad@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad)
Subject: Re: mucho out of date archies?
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:40:58 GMT

In article <1idviqINNjg3@nigel.msen.com> emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>rumor has it that some archie server sites are still trying to sync their
>files off of the mcgill server, and as such are some number of months
>behind the times.  truth?  fiction?  you decide.  (and fix too please
>if it's possible)

	Hmmm, that might explain archie not being able to find some things
today.  (FYI, my default archie server is at SURAnet.)

				Bill Bogstad
From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin
Subject: mucho out of date archies?
Date: 6 Jan 93 06:51:56 GMT
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

rumor has it that some archie server sites are still trying to sync their
files off of the mcgill server, and as such are some number of months
behind the times.  truth?  fiction?  you decide.  (and fix too please
if it's possible)

--Ed
Xref: sparky comp.archives.admin:521 comp.unix.admin:6922
From: ses@sunSITE.unc.edu (Simon Spero)
Subject:  *ATTENTION ALL SITES MIRRORING EXPORT.LCS.MIT.EDU:/CONTRIB*
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:07:27 GMT

Check your mirrored copy of "contrib/JIS", and make sure that no 
extraneous files and directories are present.

Simon

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Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: 4 GL or what?
From: Murray_Moffatt@kcbbs.gen.nz (Murray Moffatt)
Date: 11 Jan 93 22:56:24 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

>fun@gorgias.umdc.umu.se (Umea Young Scientists) says:

>Is there any other way writing apps for Btrieve-databases 
>(using Btrieve or NetWare SQL) than using traditional 3 GL 
>languages (C, Pascal), is there some language like that for 
>Paradox (PAL)?

The latest version of Clarion (due out in March) will have Btrieve support.

Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: paul@sierra.com (Paul Stratton)
Subject: Re: MS Access Optimization
Keywords: database,DBMS,performance,Microsoft,Access
Organization: Sierra Geophysics Inc.,  Kirkland, Wa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:15:33 GMT

Look in the help file and search for the word performance.  It mentioned
this in the readme file.


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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 12:20:56 CST
From: Henry C. Young <U23379@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Zip code data base wanted
 <10112@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil>

Is there a server that will give coordinate boundaries for a zipcode zone?

I am looking for a zip codes map(s) for Illinois (5 digit zip).  I only need
the outline data rather than a detailed image.   What I want to do is to
create some visual demographics based on student population within
zip code zones (already known)

   Thanks,
           Henry
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.unix.questions
From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian)
Subject: shql version 1.1 finally released
Organization: a consultant's basement
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:42:47 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.unix.questions
From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian)
Subject: shql version 1.1 finally released
Organization: a consultant's basement
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:36:55 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


I have finally released shql, version 1.1, and it appeared in
comp.sources.misc on Thursday, Jan 7, 1993.

Those of you migrating from version 1.0, please read the CHANGES file
for changes.

If your news software has already expired shql, it is Volume 34, Issue
91.  Check the archives.  If you need to know how to get
comp.sources.misc archives, see the FAQ of comp.sources.wanted.  Sending
e-mail with subject, 'help', to netlib@uunet is also possible.

The source is 34k shar'ed.  I would say, "I will mail you a copy," but I
start to feel like a mail-server.  Please only ask me to mail you a copy
if you are stuck.

Attached is the description of what shql does.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here is shql, version 1.1.  It has two added features, the ability to do
SELECT's with multiple tables, and support for aggregates like AVG(),
and SUM().

SHQL is an interactive SQL database engine.  Written as a Unix shell
script, SHQL interprets SQL commands and manipulates flat files based on
those commands.  SHQL is limited in its understanding of SQL constructs.
All this is outlined in the README file contained in the distribution. 
A demo file is also included to show some examples.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: yacc/lex for SQL ?
Organization: I.E.C.C.
Date: 7 Jan 93 01:39:40 EST (Thu)
From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)

In article <C0FMJz.KI6@bt-sys.bt.co.uk> you write:
>Has any one got a yacc/lex for SQL, I am not really looking
>for a complete syntax, any basicly working yacc/lex for simple(ish)
>sql will do ?

You can find a complete grammar in the comp.compilers archive for FTP
at primost.cs.wisc.edu or via mail server at
compilers-server@iecc.cambridge.ma.us.

I also shamelessly recommend this book (which I think is wonderful, but
since I wrote a lot of it and edited the rest, I would) one of the chapters
of which is explains a full lex/yacc SQL parser in gruesome detail.  The
code for that is at uunet with all the other Nutshell code.

John R. Levine, Tony Mason, and Doug Brown, ``Lex & Yacc,'' 2nd Edition,
O'Reilly and Associates, 1992, ISBN 1-56592-000-7, $29.95.

In the U.S. and Canada it's available at bookstores or direct from the
publisher, phone (800) 338-NUTS.  Elsewhere it's distributed by
Addison-Wesley.  If you can't get it locally, I can provide some names of
U.S. bookstores that have it in stock and accept international orders by
fax or e-mail.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl
From: dmmatt@bigez (Mike Mattix)
Subject: Re: Move XBASE compats to own newsgroup
Organization: Monsanto Agricultural Company
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:04:35 GMT

In article <dtb.726154234@otto>, dtb@otto (David Bath) writes:
> I agree with some other netters.
> 	fox, clipper, dbase, etc .... all those "xbase" compatibles
> 	using "dbase" files deserve their own newsgroup.
> 
> 	maybe paradox stuff should have theirs as well.
> 
> 	comp.databases should be a general discussion area, with
> 	most of the product specific stuff living in their own
> 	newsgroups, as comp.databases.(oracle|ingre|sybase) do.
> 
> Who wants to do this ?

ME!!

-- 
Mike Mattix
Agricultural Group of Monsanto
P.O. Box 174
Luling, LA 70070
INTERNET Address: dmmatt@bigez.monsanto.com
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: ortiz@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Victor Ortiz)
Subject: SQL FOR MF/COBOL AND SCO UNIX
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:47:09 GMT


  We are looking for an sql and report generator to be used with Micro Focus
  Cobol running under SCO Unix.  It must support variable record lengths.  

  Can anyone recommend such a product?

Thanx, Victor Ortiz

[ortiz@edmund.cs.andrews.edu]
From: rhaven@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Paradox bug/feature in query form? (3.5)
Summary: Wildcard Varibles in Paradox QBE
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 22:08:02 PST
Reply-To: rhaven@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us



It is a known and expected behavior.  There is really no way to have 
tilde variables (variables in query statements) be able to both
represent literal text and have wildcards in theme.

One alternative is to use a more UI driven technique.

CLEARALL
MENU {Ask} SELECT "Cust"     ;;   you can use a variable here if you want
     [Last_name] = variable + ".."	;;	assign the query fields
;;	as if they were data fields
MOVETO [Last_Name]     CHECK
MOVETO [First_Name]    CHECK

DO_IT!

This technique allows a lot more flexibility because any string expression
can be assigned to a Query field.  Example elements can be assigned like:

    [Link Field] = "_xyz"

You can set the keywords in the far left column like this:

    [#] = "delete"

You must move to the field to set Checkmarks, however.   There are several
conversion scripts on Compuserv which will write this sort of code for
a Query on the workspace.

Cheers
 Richard
From: seth.esrig@brent.uucp (Seth Esrig) 
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: client/server app in Info
Date: 10 Jan 93 15:49:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Brentwood BBS Harrison, NY  914-835-7898
Reply-To: seth.esrig@brent.uucp (Seth Esrig) 

MR>in the 12/28 issue of infoworld, alice laplante gives an overview of a
MR>system being designed for the michigan social service.

MR>2 unisys 2000/644es mainframes
MR>144 u 6000/60 servers (1 per office)
MR>6200 windows based pc's.

Just how many people are we supporting on welfare in this country, to
require such a monstrosity for just one state?? Maybe we should be more
concerned with finding ways of getting their butts off welfare rather
than dreaming up faster ways to churn out checks!
---
 . SLMR 2.1a . I've been DBASEd, outFOXed, and deCeived
                                                                                  
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Move XBASE compats to own newsgroup
Keywords: xbase dbase
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:00:43 GMT

In <dtb.726154234@otto> dtb@otto (David Bath) writes:

>	fox, clipper, dbase, etc .... all those "xbase" compatibles
>	using "dbase" files deserve their own newsgroup.

>	comp.databases should be a general discussion area, with
>	most of the product specific stuff living in their own
>	newsgroups, as comp.databases.(oracle|ingre|sybase) do.

>Who wants to do this ?

	I asked for discussion on this about a year and a half ago.
The net.consensus was that the volume didn't justify the switch at
that time, and it looks like nothing has changed in that regard.

	Perhaps subscribing to bit.listserv.dbase would be of some
help?  It's not particularly dBase specific, so Clipper and Foxpro
stuff can be sent to the list and to get your results.

< Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
<  ISU only censors what I read, not what I say.  Don't blame them.  >
<  "Are you *SURE* he's worth a Harley-Davidson?" -- my grandmother  >
< to my girlfriend, about me.  "I'd better not say" -- my girlfriend >
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: dmmatt@bigez (Mike Mattix)
Subject: Re: Where are the Borland Tech-Faxes?
Organization: Monsanto Agricultural Company
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:10:54 GMT

In article <4r#@byu.edu>, ron@bert.cs.byu.edu (Ron Snyder) writes:
> A few weeks ago (or was it days?) someone posted mentioning that
> the tech faxes that Borland sends out were available on one of the
> archive sites, and I thought that I would never need them so I 
> ignored the message.  You guessed it-- I need them now.  If you
> know where they are would you please either post the location or 
> mail it to ron@bert.cs.byu.edu.  I've tried archie, but I can't 
> even remember what the file name was.
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> --
> Ron Snyder <ron@bert.cs.byu.edu>   <snyderrj@coned1.byu.edu>
> ****************************************************************

 Call 1-800-822-4264.

-- 
Mike Mattix
Agricultural Group of Monsanto
P.O. Box 174
Luling, LA 70070
INTERNET Address: dmmatt@bigez.monsanto.com
From: someday@hardy.u.washington.edu (Scott Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Revelation: PUSH.SESSION/POP.SESSION
Date: 6 Jan 1993 06:09:19 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu
Keywords: revelation

In article <1993Jan6.040107.17339@massey.ac.nz> D.M.Todd@massey.ac.nz (D.M. Todd) writes:
>Can someone tell me how to use PUSH.SESSION/POP.SESSION to save and
>restore system variables in Advanced Revelation?
>
>TIA
>
>David

From pages 93 and 107 of the System Subroutines manual, the syntax is

      push.session( cursor_loc, sentence, record, id, dict, mv )
      pop.session(  cursor_loc, sentence, record, id, dict, mv )

Where cursor_loc stores the current cursor screen location;
      sentence stores the value of @SENTENCE;
      record stores the value of @RECORD;
      id stores the value of @ID;
      dict stores the value of @DICT;
      mv stores the values of @MV, @INSERT, and current video (@RM-delimited).

-Scott
From: mjl@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Cancer Research database: need advice
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:04:35 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

Thanks to all those who replied to my rather long request for advice.

The quick summary for those interested I can only really give as a list
of all the mentioned packages. Some may be DBMS packages and others may be 
related software that was suggested. There was no concensus of opinion and
everyone suggested different things. The size of opinion was about 8 replies.

Until I follow up suggestions I will not be able to comment further.

GNU GDBMS
Impromptu
Ingres
Interbase
Megalog
Oracle
Oraperl
Powerhouse 4GL
Powerplay
R:BASE
RDB
/rdb
Sysbase perl

Regards,
Martin Loach
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: CCRE <CCRE@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: Can You Recommend dBase or FoxPro Recovery Tools?
Organization: McGill University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:34:34 GMT

Happy New Year!

Users frequently come to us for help in recovering the data
in damaged dBase files.  Granting that backups are the best solution,
are there any tools that could make recovery easier? How do they
 compare?  (e.g.dSALVAGE, Norton Utilities, or PC Tools)

Thank you,
Mike Rainville

Analyst, Computer and Communications Support Services
McGill University Computing Centre
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Subject: Re: Pls help: algorithm wanted (xbase, pref foxpro)
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 21:24:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.201319.9088@almserv.uucp> g9utxu@fnma.COM writes:

>I like this program, <...> But does it work...I tried using 
>the following:
>
>RATE.DBF    Record   START_DATE    END_DATE   STATUS
>               1      07/01/91     06/30/92   FINAL
>               2      07/01/92     06/30/93   FINAL
>               3      07/01/93     12/31/93   PROVL
>               4      01/01/94     06/30/94   FINAL

Your results and the RATES.DBF indicate that you did not add the final
"rest of time" record.  Add a 5th record from 07/01/94 - 12/31/99 that
is uncovered.

By shifting that burden onto the database I was able to reduce the code
size.  In your version (written more to spec perhaps) a "no find" meant
that you still had to skip back one record to make certain that if it
_really_ was a no find or if the search date was prior to the last
record's END_DATE.

tom

Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: dmmatt@bigez (Mike Mattix)
Subject: Paradox/SQL Link/Rdb Headaches
Organization: Monsanto Agricultural Company
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:44:00 GMT


I am having a dreadful time making Paradox and SQL Link work properly
when accessing DEC's Rdb.  I have tried it with both 3.5 and 4.0.  I 
am attempting to connect to a database via an SQLSELECTCONNECT statement
where I have a Paradox screen prompt for Username and Password and then
supply this information with the VALUES parameter list.  When I do this
the messages at the right bottom of the screen tell me that I have connected
to the database but do not tell me I have opened it.  When I attempt to 
perform a query a remote table from the next script in the application it
tells me there are 'No images present' and bugchecks.  If I attempt the 
query the remote table manually it prompts me for a Username and Password
again and then performs the query.  When I use the Connections screen it 
tells me I have connected to and opened the database and then queries 
can be performed as usual.  I have tried many other combinations and am
getting more confused by the hour.  

Questions:

 1) Are there any problems moving the replica tables from one directory to
    another?  I have done this, is this the problem?

 2) Any special setups in SQL Services on the VAX?  I am running the 'out
    of the box' version with no configuration modifications.

 3) Any other ideas??

Please help my sanity is going....


-- 
Mike Mattix
Agricultural Group of Monsanto
P.O. Box 174
Luling, LA 70070
INTERNET Address: dmmatt@bigez.monsanto.com
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: What is "XBase"?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:34:01 GMT

ummalik@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Ijaz Rashid Malik) writes:


>I often hear and read about XBase programs? What exactly are XBase programs?
>Any proper definition? And how does (if it does) Paradox qualify to be
>a XBase program?

	I'll take a stab at this.  Xbase are programs that stem from, and
are remotely compatible with, Dbase.  Usually Dbase 3+ is considered the
standard programming script language for compatibility purposes.  While
virtually all Xbase software (the most notable being Dbase IV, FoxPro, and
Clipper) have added extentions to the language, they will still be able
to run the original Dbase 3+ code without significant alternation.  I
understand Paradox has a scripting language that evolved from Dbase, but
am unsure on just how far its come (or how little, for that matter).

	Thus, being a FoxPro programmer, I can often help Clipper or
Dbase IV people in their programming problems, and visa-versa, because
the languages stem from a common origin and are remotely compatible.
As a side criterion, all of these programs will use the standard .DBF
database file type from Dbase 3+, or at least import and convert as
needed and very reliably.

< Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
<  ISU only censors what I read, not what I say.  Don't blame them.  >
<  "Are you *SURE* he's worth a Harley-Davidson?" -- my grandmother  >
< to my girlfriend, about me.  "I'd better not say" -- my girlfriend >

	
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