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On 07/06/13 08:06, Adrian Midgley
wrote:
Blackwell Idealist was the best for libraries. My
old copy runs under Wine.
A full text database with indexing and and hoc fields
seems the dort of thing someone could write for Linux.
Not me, alas.
On 6 Jun 2013 21:39, "Philip Hudson" < phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 6 Jun, 2013, at 9:17 pm, Gordon Henderson wrote:
Although you've not actually said what you want it for...
Yes, that was a mistake. But c'mon Gordon, you know you don't
need to point out those basic facts to me. I stretch sed to
its limits on a regular basis.
So: it's for a non-technical, naive user, who has been
maintaining a c500-row library catalogue in a spreadsheet, and
screwing it up in mind-boggling ways, over and over. User
education has repeatedly failed. I need a no-brainer RAD GUI
one-record-at-a-time CRUD app with a single table and export
to CSV, or preferably, something that JFW with a single CSV
file. We need to keep the data as either CSV or a common
spreadsheet format for interchange with other users with
absolutely unknown systems, who will usually need read-only
access. One form, one report, one table, one file, no indexes.
Oh, and no budget.
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As someone pointed out earlier perl does that with ease. The point
is in order to make it generic you write interfaces to get the data
from the flat file for you. Once you're there you may as well have
uses sqllite from the start.
Don’t reinvent the wheel when you are using a matter transporter to
draw up the plans - unless you are learning.
Tom te tom te tom
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