Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!abhg!ssbn!bill
From: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: C-ISAM(*) type isam-source & terminal interaction source wanted
Summary: CTREE is very good
Keywords: ISAM,SCREEN
Message-ID: <206@ssbn.WLK.COM>
Date: 30 Jul 88 20:03:13 GMT
References: <371@tolsun.oulu.fi> <245@westmark.UUCP> <227@sdeggo.UUCP> <177@carssdf.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy)
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Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. and Associates, Pipe Creek, TX
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In article <177@carssdf.UUCP> watson@carssdf.UUCP (John H. Watson) writes:
>I would like to add that I have been using CTREE myself and like it.
>I am an independent contractor now, and use CTREE in 3 different businesses.

I'll add my name to the satisfied user list.  I have been using it since
it was fashioned from a rib in Access Manager.  I'm sure that Bill would
object to that simile :-)  I have only found one operating system that
could not execute C-Tree code correctly, Microport V/386.  The problem
changed shape and moved with DOS/Merge in and out but in no case could the
compiler produce working code for C-Tree or R-Tree.  AT&T 386 UNIX does fine
as does SCO 386 Xenix.  I'm not bashing uPort about that (even though it was
one of the things that made me pitch it out the door), but if you are planning
on using Microport then you should forget about C-Tree/R-Tree.  Personally
I prefer the reverse of that logic.

>a year.  They have a companion report writer that is great.  I am using
>it everywhere now.  It is called RTREE.  It can't handle repeating records,
>one data record with and aray of detail records in it.  This is a big
>problem for me, so you might want to look at RTREE before you finalize your
>record layouts for CTREE.

While John is correct about that you can wriggle past it by using run-time
virtual sets.  He's 10,000% right about keeping them both in mind when you
do your design.  The two get along famously but a little thought before you
commit to a layout will save you some frustration.  Actually, the only
report writer I know of that actually _likes_ repeating records is RPG :-) :-)
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