On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, W Canedigh wrote:
> The dedicated databases (mapping, phone & address listings, etc) IS a
> speed bump. Obviously, if we can not convince the manufacturers to port
> their front end programs, we will have to write filters to read the data
> in a Unix environment.
Indeed, it is what I did to resolve an annoying problem of CDROM
consultation : a Windows proprietary program allowed to consult an
important database, slowly and clunky, only using interactive
mouse/keyboard interface.
I wanted to provide some access from a UNIX relational database, or from a
DOS command line, from our intranet web server, and so on.
First I exported the whole original database to reshape it to my own
needs. Owing to glimpse and a generic perl interface, I can now dig into
100 MB of the flat ASCII file (variable fields and separators) within less
than 5 seconds on the PII 400 server, from HTML, PROGRESS rdbms, DOS
cli...
It works very well, but what effort just to compensate for the lack of
portability...
Alain
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