have you thought about xml? --matt
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:09:37PM +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:59:50 -0800, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I can't but think that MySQL is way overkill. > > Tha'ts true if you have to install it for just that purpose. Otherwise it is a > rather convenient way to handle this data and you don't have to write some > script for the queries. :) > > >Let's define the queries we want to do, and see if awk isn't > >up to them :-) It probably is, and it's far easier to > > I don't think that you can't handle it with a script. :) And I also see the > point of users not wanting to install MySQL for such a small task. :) > > >set up than MySQL. Those who can't think in anything but SQL > >really should try learning the traditional unix programmer's > >workbench tools for relational database processing. > > I have no problem with either. If it is in MySQL I can handle it and if it is > a flat file in an organized manner I can also handle it. I have written enough > shell scripts so I don't see any problem for that. > -- > Gerhard Gruber > > F?r jedes menschliche Problem gibt es immer eine einfache L?sung: > Klar, einleuchtend und falsch. (Henry Louis Mencken) >