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From: cgh018@tijc02.UUCP (Calvin Hayden )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Re: ascii database program package?
Message-ID: <549@tijc02.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 89 17:27:16 GMT
References: <1356@nosc.NOSC.MIL> <26233@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <545@tijc02.UUCP>
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
> 
> 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.
> 

OOPS!  Spoke too soon,  the book contains sources for small bits n pieces,
but not the entire source.  I believe it mentions where the source for /rdb
is available from, but for a co$t.  Sorry didn't include this before.

Cal