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From: brennan@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mary Ann Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: INGRES on remote machine
Message-ID: <44162@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 15:24:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 15:24:20 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 06:10:22 EDT
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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We are wondering if anyone has tried to create a set of C functions to
login on a remote machine, do an INGRES query and return the results to
the calling function.  Ideally we would like to be able to use EQUEL
within our applications, but the number of workstations makes that a
costly choice -- we won't use unlicensed copies of INGRES.  We would
want the remote login to be transparent to the application writer, and
would want to be able to handle ad-hoc queries restricted only by the
application writer's choice.  To make the problem somewhat easier, we
would only be interested in using such functions on a set of machines
which have the same binary number representations -- a set of SUNs on
NFS.  If anyone has experience or an opinion -- either positive or
negative -- on the difficulty of making such functions  with a
relatively easy to understand interface I would appreciate hearing from
you.  Any ideas?

Replies either directly to me, brennan@seismo.CSS.GOV, or to this
newsgroup (if it is not too much traffic) are fine, I'll post a
summary of direct replies if there is interest.
	Thanks,
	Mary Ann Brennan