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On 7 Jun 2013, at 17:35, Neil Winchurst wrote: > On 07/06/13 11:22, Simon Robert -Cottage wrote: >>> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz >>> @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 >>> > > I have just had a look at the latest version of Kexi 2.6.3. I must say it has much > improved since the last time I checked. For a flat file database it should be > fine. I have had a little play and so far so very good. The improvement in amazing. > > I have not checked for calculated fields yet, but that will not concern you I > think. I think you need a fairly new version of Linux to find it in the > repositories. I am running it in Xubuntu 13.04 in VBox and it was there to be > installed. Otherwise there is a ppa about somewhere. > Probably totally out of date now but in the 90's I was using TCL/TK for contact dbs. Simple to build GUI on top of a flat file. Might still be an option. Cheers, Pete -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq