A web/cgi interface would be easy to use, extensible, and accessible from
any platform with no special software. You could slap something together
quickly and improve it as needed.
Chris Morton wrote:
>
> Well, I suppose it depends then, doesn't it?
>
> I have Access 97 on my Win98 system and could buy Visual Basic if I
> needed it.
>
> I'm a competitive shooter and would like to work up databases of both
> cartridge reloading information and competition results. I've got a
> Linux server and network, so I figured that it'd be more interesting to
> do it in SQL on Linux than just to do it in Access. I've got a server
> and one workstation and the parts for a second workstation. I plan to
> access competition data from my main system, and set up the second
> workstation next to my reloading press so that I can enter and retrieve
> reloading data as I work. This second machine will be a Linux
> workstation running on a Pentium 133. This would allow me to use my
> databases from either workstation, Win98 or Linux, interchangeably.
>
> Got any suggestions?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Dekkers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 8:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Low Cost Win9x Xserver Software
>
> > I've got an RH 6.0 server and a Win98 workstation on a LAN at home.
> I'm
> > planning to start some SQL database development on the server, but
> would
> > like to be able to access it from one or more Win9x machines. I'm
> going
> > to presume that any presentable and friendly way of doing this is
> going
> > to involve a Win9x X-server of some kind.
>
> This MAY not be necessary depending on what you're programming in. The
> only
> reason I say this is that on Borland's lists there's a lot of wrappers
> to
> talk directly to things like MySQL. It may be worth having a look at
> something like this first?
>
> Just a suggestion.
>
> Edward Dekkers (Director)
> Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd.
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