Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:19285 comp.unix.questions:14206 comp.sys.ibm.pc:30026
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!apple!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!sumax!amc-gw!thebes!happym!nwnexus!intek01!mark
From: mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Btree library
Summary: Btrieve: use only for DOS
Keywords: Btree C-ISAM D-ISAM c-tree B-Plus Btrieve
Message-ID: <202@intek01.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 89 00:24:24 GMT
References: <870@bimacs.BITNET> <32@consult.UUCP> <883@bimacs.BITNET>
Organization: Integration Technologies Inc. (Intek), Bellevue WA
Lines: 26

In article <883@bimacs.BITNET>, marmor@bimacs.BITNET (Eli Marmor) writes:
> >>We have a complicated program (for PC) which uses Btrieve. We are porting it
> >>to other OS's and machines, so we have to emulate Btrieve by
> >>another database library source (in C), because the original one was written
> >>in Assembly (8086).
> >
> >
Bob Willey:
> >The obvious answer seems to be to use the Novell BTreive module for the
> >operating system you are using.  It is available in several environments
> >such as SCO Xenix and DOS and networking.  Several others that we do not
> >use ourselves.


Forget Btrieve on anything but DOS.  We found the Xenix version to be
very unreliable, and Softcraft to be very uninterested in fixing it.

We switched to C-tree for Unix (and the Macintosh) with great success.
You also get source, which has saved our cookies more than once.

Good luck.  It's a database jungle out there. :)

Mark McWiggins
Integration Technologies, Inc. (Intek)
(206) 455-9935
uunet!intek01!mark