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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
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Subject: Re: Need ISAM package for VMS / ULTRIX / UNIX
Summary: SoftFocus
Message-ID: <880@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 91 18:10:07 GMT
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Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <1286@sud509.ed.ray.com>, fredrp@tdw206.ed.ray.com (Fred Ross-Perry) writes:
> 
> I'm looking for a portable package that will allow me to do ISAM-like
> files in a C program under VMS and ULTRIX, and possibly other UNIX
> systems (like SUN).  Does anyone know of such a beast?  Basically, I
> want a file (or other structure) to/from which many users can
> Do keyed, interlocked reads/writes.

SoftFocus in Canada has a package that I have run under both UNIX
and MS-DOS.  Can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work under VMS.
It supports multi-user access, and variable length records.  Source
code is something like $200 with no royalties when including it in
a product.

I have been using their stuff for years.  It has proved to be very
reliable and they are fun people to deal with.  Here is the contact
information:
	SoftFocus
	1342 Stanbury Drive
	Oakville, ON L6L 2J5  CANADA
	(416)825-0903

They are a small company, Jon Simkins is the person who wrote most
of the code.

-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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