Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!olivea!isc-br!ewu!mpierce From: mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: dBMan 5 (Was Re: Still no Ami businessware.) Message-ID: <1511@ewu.UUCP> Date: 17 Mar 91 09:39:04 GMT References: <27839@netcom.COM> <28219@netcom.COM> Organization: Eastern Washington Univ. Cheney WA Lines: 53 In article <28219@netcom.COM>, rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe) writes: > wally@pallas.athenanet.com (Wally Hartshorn) writes: > > >In article <27839@netcom.COM> rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe) writes: [Whole bunch of stuff about DBman compared to DBase and FOXbase deleted] > >Also, just as a thought, does/will dBMan support ARexx? > > It will if you ask for it. Let me know how you could use it, and I'll > toss on an ARexx port in a jiffy. OK, here is how you could use an ARexx port: Say you are in a radio dispatch center at a busy Police Dept. You have the dispatcher working the radio, and the computer. A hot call comes in, an officer needs info on a Joe Blow whom he is actively pursuing. The dispatcher flips her word processor to the back, calls flips her trusty dirtbag-info-retrieval system to the front, and types in Joe Blow's name, then hits the panic gadget with her mouse. The trusty informations system checks the local database for the personal info on sir Joe Blow, and once it retrieves it, it calls up the trusty NCIC and WASIC telecommunications program (via the) Arexx port) and sends the info across the lines. While the NCIC and WASIC computers are checking their files, the local database calls up DIGIVIEW, ^^^^^^^^ (via its Arexx port) or someother graphics program and loads up the digitized mugshot of Joe Blow and sends it to the printer so that there is a copy to circulate amongst the other officers incase he gets away. Once the NCIC and WASIC computers return from their search, they send their info to the telecommunications program, which sends it to the database program (via the arexx port) which formats the information and displays it for the dispatcher to relay to the troops. And when all is said and done, all relevant information is sent to the dispatcher in the form of a document which was formatted by a wordprocessing app that was controlled by the database program through the use of its Arexx port. This is a real scenario, I worked there, I quite working there to return to college to get the education necessary to make an application like the one (actually several linked via Arexx) above. With an Arexx port, one can create very extravagent applications out of existing software, in a minimal amount of developement time. The place I worked used 4 IBM compatible computers to do the above scenario, because one computer couldn't do it. And that was mainly because the telecommunications couldn't talk to the database, which couldn't talk to the word processor or the jail records. An Arrex port could really be useful. > >Wally Hartshorn (uunet!pallas!wally or wally@athenanet.com) > >President, Amiga Computer Enthusiasts of Springfield (ACES) > > Ben Discoe, main programmer and long-time Amiga fanatic at > VersaSoft, makers of dBMan for the Amiga. -Matt Pierce