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From: cleary@husc9.harvard.edu (Kenneth Cleary)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: ?FAQ? Questions about installing University Ingres (& Postgres)
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Date: 3 Oct 90 19:36:27 GMT
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Reply-To: cleary@husc3.harvard.edu (Kenneth Cleary)
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Before I start asking a whole bunch of questions, I would like to ask
if someone has an FAQ article for this group that they could mail or post.

I'm interested in compiling and installing University INGRES on a VMS
system, to allow students to experiment with it for a course in DBM systems.
I'm trying to find out if someone has done a non-commercial port from
the source code, which is aimed at UNIX, to code which will run on VMS.
Failing this, I will take a crack at doing a port myself.

It would also be nice to try to get POSTGRES running, but the mention of
kernel modification to achieve dynamic loading tells me a port should not
be considered lightly.  As long as I'm on this topic, could someone familiar
with dynamic loading give a thumbnail sketch for someone who is a novice?
VMS has extensive system service routines, and various run-time libraries
that go beyond that available for most UNIX machines, so I may be able to
come up with an emulation of this thing.

I'm a novice at some of this, but if some of this sounds naive, feel free
to flame away, or comment on any aspect, so that I might correct any of my
misunderstandings.

*DONNING FLAME-PROOF SUIT*
Ken Cleary.