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From: wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Is there a Simple Database Program Out There?
Summary: Yup, there are three.
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Date: 30 Aug 90 20:47:17 GMT
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Douglas Scott writes:
>I would like to create a basic file-card sort of database on my cube.  Any
>suggestions about what to use/buy/write?  I was surprised that there was no
>form of database program bundled.  After all, I'm not asking for the
>equivalent of MS Works or anything.  What would be my best way to proceed?

There are three databases that come with the NeXT.

One is Sybase, which seems a bit complicated for what you're doing.
Printing the Sybase docs is discussed in NeXTAnswers, and in the
archives.

The other is DBM, which ships with a lot of unix boxes.  It's fairly
simple, and lacks command-line utilities, but it gets the job done.
You can find these functions with a man -k dbm.

The one I'd recommend is db, which seems to be a NeXT unix enhancement.
It has command line utilities as well as c library functions to manipulate
a database.  It's described under man 3 db, and man 1 dbConcatenate.

Or, you could always use Netinfo, but you'd have to run as root.

-william shipley
your average joe who likes nexts