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From: gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: making an INFORMIX-4GL runner with Turbo-C
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Date: 16 Mar 89 17:34:50 GMT
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I recently got a copy of INFORMIX-4GL & INFORMIX-SQL for DOS.  The docs
say that you can link C functions with 4GL applications, then go on to
tell you that you need Microsoft-C 4.0 or greater.  I have Turbo-C
2.0.  Has anyone ever attempted to use TC?  What's MSCish about the
INFORMIX stuff?  Does INFORMIX just want to invoke the C-compiler with
MSC argument switches?  Or is the problem more fundamental, like
symbol-table/calling-convention/stack-frame incompatibilities with TC?

BTW, how do people in net-land like INFORMIX on DOS?  I wasted some
time trying to do a entity-relationship style application with
Paradox 3.0 not too long ago.  After skimming the INFORMIX docs last
night, I have much greater confidence that INFORMIX is much more of
a *real* database system than a toy like Paradox.

Are there other RDBMSs for DOS that do better for entity-relationship
applications better than INFORMIX?

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