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From: drew@sdeggo.UUCP (Drew Dean)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: C-ISAM(*) type isam-source & terminal interaction source wanted
Summary: CTREE is also pretty good
Keywords: ISAM,SCREEN
Message-ID: <227@sdeggo.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 88 04:56:41 GMT
References: <371@tolsun.oulu.fi> <245@westmark.UUCP>
Organization: Lazy Programmer's Society of San Diego
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In article <245@westmark.UUCP>, dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson) writes:
> In article <371@tolsun.oulu.fi>, reini@tolsun.oulu.fi (Jukka Reinikainen) writes:
> > For a number of projects I need a PD or commercial isam-type indexed file
> > system manipulation tools written in C...
> Have a look at CBTREE.  This is a C-language library of B+tree index
> and data handling functions.  It seems to provide the functionality
> requested by the original poster (but I haven't done a checklist
> comparison with the original article) and is sold as C source code. 
> As shipped, it can be built for MS-DOS (using any of a half-dozen or
> so C compilers) or for Xenix.
> Not public domain, but the source code license is not very expensive
> (a couple of hundred, as I recall) and you may embed the object in
> your product and re-sell it without royalties.

C-TREE from Faircom systems is also pretty good.  As I recall, the source
code lists for $395, and can be ported to about any (professional) MS-DOS
compiler, UNIX, 68k boxes (they have a Mac edition), etc...  Oh yeah-- the
manual lists one function per page, in alphabetical order-- some people like
this style, others don't.
Other than using C-TREE at work, I have no connection with Faircom.
Also, I should note that there update from version 3.3 to 4.1 wasn't
entirely smooth, as we found some changes in the library only after we had
burnt a CD-ROM...(thankfully we were able to work around the changes...)
But then again, we use the low-level tools, not the high-level ISAM
toolbox.

Drew Dean
drew@sdeggo.UUCP
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