You can connect to the DB on Linux using ODBC over any TCP/IP network, and
you don't need to worry about NFS, File sharing, Samba etc.
All you need is MySQL on Linux connected to your network and ODBC will
connect on port 3306 over TCP/IP, that's all you need.
A system built this way can use many different front-ends on different OS's
completely independant of the DB.
- Scott
>
> 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.
>
> Richard
>
> "Jeremy D. Zawodny" wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:17:52PM -0600, Richard Reina wrote:
> >
> > > I run a small business. A year and a half ago I embarked on a
> > > jorney to port my DOS Foxpro Database to linux. I selected mysql as
> > > an the engine and and begand writing the app. using perl/dbi and
> > > perlmenu module/curses as the front end at first I used NFS to share
> > > the databse files on the LAN. I was soon after convinced by a perl
> > > gut to ditch NFS as and use apach/mod_perl and write the front end
> > > in HTML.
> > >
> > > I hired someone to help me and we wrote the first phase and I hate
> > > the frontend. I hate having to hit submit after every entry. I
> > > hate the way a browser looks and the wait it feels. We're even
> > > tried using w3m I still hate it. I'm looking for a NON GRAPHICAL
> > > interface taht I guess would work with apache mod-perl. Any
> > > suggestions? Does Perl Tk fit this bill?
> >
> > Perl/Tk is for generating GUIs, which you don't want.
> >
> > I don't understand what's wrong with the curses/DBI approach. It
> > should work fine. There's not need for mod_perl and Apache if there is
> > not supposed to be a web interface.
> >
> > Jeremy
> > --
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