More OT but I have to chime in ... I also used B-Trieve
in the 80's.  Not much as a true developer -- it was used
in a system I had to maintain for a while.  There was one
function call, so I guess you can't get much simpler than
that.  

Here's where I got a shock that I never verified was true:
Once when our Exchange Server (MS mail) went down, I was
talking to the systems guy and he said that every so often
"the B-Trieve tables got hosed."  That's a little frightening
if it's true.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mayes, Iman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 5:39 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      RE: What is Betrive?
> 
> 
> A little OT, but it is actually being used in a production software
> package called Teleform from Cardiff software. Teleform is an OCR
> program which you use to create forms, OCR them from fax or scan, and
> then store the information in a database. BTrieve is used to store the
> forms themselves, while the data is stored in an ODBC database.
> 
> FYI
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 5:35 PM
> To: Moritz von Schweinitz
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: What is Betrive?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:03:56PM -0600, Moritz von Schweinitz wrote:
> > my two cents:
> > some professor of mine who was in love with b-trees kept on talking
> > about b-trieve, and how terrrible (?) it was that they now belong to
> > pervasive or something like that.
>  
> As if it's fate would be far nobler moldering on dark shelves in
> the backrooms of Academia.
> 
> > it seemed as if b-trieve was somehow capable of storing data
> internally
> > as trees or something like that, but i haven't heard anything about it
> > for a while, so i guess it got a bit obsolete...
> 
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