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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hello,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I hope my emails are finally not HTML formatted.... If they are it might be because I am using a web client as I write this -- so I apologize ahead of time....</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Anyways, I have been looking for a good cross-platofrm database solution that works with Revolution (mostly I am worried about the Mac and Windows piece, with UNIX there are a lot more options it would seem)....</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>What I came across was this Valentina database, which looks really compelling to me.. But, for the life of me I have no clue what to do with what I have downloaded .. How to even install it.... Is it a plugin?.. What is the difference between a plugin and a xcmd (or a vxcmd for that matter?)... it was it can use two api's.. The vxcmd api or the REVDB api... </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I have a feeling that if I could just get this thing installed and get the samples to work I might be able to figure it out, but no matter where I stick this file called "Valentina Engine" it just doesn't seem to do anything different.. When I go to the plugins editor of Revolution all I see is "revexamples.rev" ... I have tried to get this working on Windows, Mac OS-X, and OS-9.. And iI just can't make any sense out of it.....</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Am I missing something in the documentation because it seems like everyone must know how to install this stuff because no matter how many sites I have visited not one of them has any sort of installation instructions.... It's really quite confusing to me.. ;-( </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I feel compelled to offer up some constructive criticism: I definately have to say that the documentation in Revolution/MetaCard seems really lacking... There should be some guidelines for 3rd party developers to write a simple text file or something (anything!) with installation instructions at the very least.... If Revolution is going to compete with Visual Basic (which it seems fully capable of doing) then this documentation problem really needs some solving.... I'd even be willing to do it, but unfortunately I can't make anything work... It's like everytime I need to do something I have to email this list server for an answer -- granted the responses I've gotten are absolutely phenomenal but it does seem like there are some very critical pieces of information which are missing.. It took me less time to install Oracle for my first time then it did to figure out how to deal with this plugin/xmcmd/cxmcsd/vxcmd/xcmd/whatever it is.... PERL modules seem almost a breeze to compile and install compared to this... Am I just thinking about all of this the wrong way or is there a problem here?....</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>- Greg</FONT>
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