Hello Dave,
I'm sure you can code your dBase lib in using transcript even if nobody else, there, seems to use such kind of stuff for yet. If i had to do the job, i would try to translate an other language dBase lib to Transcript instead of starting from scratch.
I don't know if it can be usefull but i know that François Jouen has build this kind of dBase lib in using the Rebol scripting language. He showed me the resulting app and i could see that it works fine. Perhaps could you download the François Jouen's libs from the Rebol developers resources (all freeware) from the www.rebol.com site and have an eye on them to see if you can translate them to native Transcript code.
Hope this can help :)
Best, Pierre
Le 12 août 04, à 20:26, Dave LeYanna a écrit :
Points well taken, none the less...
Let me take a different approach here. How about creating libs (not an
external) that have functions like open, close, set order to, seek, append,
delete, pack, get, put and so on. The tables are in use now I just want to
use Rev as a front end without ODBC. However if nothing like this exists I
suppose that I'll have to decide if I want to take the time to make it (not
likely) or not use Rev as the front end. I wonder about Python...
Dave
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--- Dave LeYanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I know that is one way to do it but I wanted native access (direct file access) because of difficulties in setting up ODBC on client desktops and the problems with mixed OS environments.
Thanks for your help. This may be the way that I have to go...
Dave
Hi Dave,
Though the file format itself is not overly complicated and well documented online, the hard part is creating the actual database engine that would parse your SQL commands and spit out the result of your SELECT. The ODBC driver takes care of all that ; and with Valentina, MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases natively supported, hardly anyone will see the need to write a native driver for dBase files -- now if this had been 8 years ago...
Jan Schenkel.
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