Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!motown!jmr
From: jmr@motown.UUCP (John M. Ritter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Need info on Revelation
Message-ID: <2059@motown.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 20:53:55 GMT
Organization: Allied-Signal Corporate Tax Dept., Morristown, NJ
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I need to ask some questions of anyone who has considerable experience
with Revelation on a PC. Unfortunately, knowing nothing about it, the
first questions are very broad...

Here's what's prompted the interest: A vendor has offered to sell us
an application written in Revelation. In order to use their specially
designed output reports with data data that already exists in our own
in-house system, we want to download our data into the Revelation
format.

Pretty much every database management system I know has some ability
to load data from a sequential file. Can Revelation do this? The
vendor tells us that although the entire system is written in
revelation, the files we need to update are *not* Revelation files,
but "propriety." They therefore want to charge us embarrassingly large
(and I mean *LARGE*) sums of money to write a program to load data
from a sequential file into their data files.

All this seems like monkey muffins to me, but without buying and
learning Revelation overnight, I don't know enough to tell them to go
pound salt.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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