dBase lib

[Pierre Sahores]

Hello Dave,

I'm sure you can code your dBase lib in using transcript even if nobody 
else, there, seems to use such kind of stuff for yet. If i had to do 
the job, i would try to translate an other language dBase lib to 
Transcript instead of starting from scratch.

I don't know if it can be usefull but i know that François Jouen has 
build this kind of dBase lib in using the Rebol scripting language. He 
showed me the resulting app and i could see that it works fine. Perhaps 
could you download the François Jouen's libs from the Rebol developers 
resources (all freeware) from the www.rebol.com site and have an eye on 
them to see if you can translate them to native Transcript code.

Hope this can help :)

Best, Pierre

Le 12 août 04, à 20:26, Dave LeYanna a écrit :

> Points well taken, none the less...
>
> Let me take a different approach here. How about creating libs (not an
> external) that have functions like open, close, set order to, seek, 
> append,
> delete, pack, get, put and so on. The tables are in use now I just 
> want to
> use Rev as a front end without ODBC. However if nothing like this 
> exists I
> suppose that I'll have to decide if I want to take the time to make it 
> (not
> likely) or not use Rev as the front end. I wonder about Python...
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Jan 
> Schenkel
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 12:49 PM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: RE: dBase lib
>
> --- Dave LeYanna <dleyanna at rtl.org> wrote:
>> I know that is one way to do it but I wanted native access (direct
>> file
>> access) because of difficulties in setting up ODBC on client desktops
>> and the problems with mixed OS environments.
>>
>> Thanks for your help. This may be the way that I have to go...
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Though the file format itself is not overly
> complicated and well documented online, the hard part
> is creating the actual database engine that would
> parse your SQL commands and spit out the result of
> your SELECT.
> The ODBC driver takes care of all that ; and with
> Valentina, MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases
> natively supported, hardly anyone will see the need to
> write a native driver for dBase files -- now if this
> had been 8 years ago...
>
> Jan Schenkel.
>
> =====
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> time."
> (La Rochefoucauld)
>
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