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From: cgh018@tijc02.UUCP (Calvin Hayden )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: ascii database program package?
Message-ID: <545@tijc02.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 89 14:01:41 GMT
References: <1356@nosc.NOSC.MIL> <26233@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Texas Instr., Johnson City TN
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> In article <1356@nosc.NOSC.MIL> dennis@peanuts.nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel) writes:
> I once read an article about a package of routines that manipulated
> databases organized as records in a normal ASCII file.  The package
> provided programs acting as filters to select records by keyword and
> to format them into reports.  Can anyone give me a reference to that
> article or to a similar set of programs?  Thanks,

In what environment? Dos? Unix?  If its a unix environment I ran across 
a book "UNIX Relational Database Management: Application Development in
the Unix Environment" by Manis, Scaffer and Jorgensen.
Explains a rdb implememtation under the unix environment with use of 
filters and flat ascii files.  I haven't used it yet, but it looks ok.
Does include source code and an example or two.  I do know that it was based
on information presented at a Usenix conference by Rod Manis describing
his "/rdb" database.  IBSN 0-13-938622-x, published by Prentice Hall.

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