On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:58:11PM -0600, Richard Reina wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.  Curses worked OK.  But I was convinced that a
> web server would be more efficient than NFS for sharing the database
> files.  Is that true?  Or is a NFS a longtime viable solution for
> clients on the LAN quering the database.

You don't need NFS in the loop at all.

You curses/perl app will be a client that talks to your MySQL server
via TCP/IP. The MySQL server is the only things that needs direct
access to the data files.

I'm suggesting that you replcate browser/mod_perl/apache with
perl/curses.

Jeremy
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