Newsgroups: comp.databases
Path: utzoo!sq!lee
From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: BRS/Search
Message-ID: <1989Dec12.231039.10082@sq.sq.com>
Reply-To: lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Organization: Unixsys (UK) Ltd
References: <276@csnz.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 89 23:10:39 GMT

In article <276@csnz.co.nz> paul@csnz.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
>[description of externally stored docuents]

>The suggestions described above have not yet been implemented
>in a commercial system, although prototypes do exist.

There are other (non-BRS) databases which have this sort of facility.
I had a discussion with STATUS which appeared to indicate that they could
also cope with the files being compressed.

>Implementation must await customer request.
Not always.  Otherwise there wouldn't be any new products, right?

Lee
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