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- RIM - 5 / AMIGA
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- Initial Information
-
- RIM-5 is a relational DBMS, translated for Amiga. Other versions are
- available for IBM PC, VAX/VMS, CDC mainframes, and IBM mainframes.
- RIM-5 (or just RIM hereafter) can be executed by just typing RIM.
- However, if you want to use it, it's a good idea to have a
- working HELP command and to read the documents first.
- Due to the large size of the RIM files, the RIM HELP database,
- all documents, and the sources, are archived. To build a working disk,
-
- 1. Make a COPY of your distribution disk of RIM and work on the copy.
- The DISKCOPY command under CLI, or the workbench facilities
- can be used. NEVER write on the master.
- 2. Delete the source archive from the copy, to gain some room.
- Its' name is RimSrcAmi.Arc.
- 3. Un-archive the document archive. The command
- ARC -x RIMDocuments.Arc #?
- will do it from CLI. You probably have to use CLI with this program.
- 4. Read the documents, and print them out or copy them to another disk.
- 5. Delete the document files, again to get room.
- 6. Now de-archive the pre-built HELP database. You can do this with the
- command
- ARC -X RimHelpDB.Arc #?
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- 7. You can now start using RIM.
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- RIM for the Amiga was derived from my port to IBM PC (available
- from PC-Blue) of the VAX version. RIM is public domain software and
- all restrictions that once existed on it have expired. I certify that
- Amiga RIM can be freely distributed, without violation of anyone's
- licensing restrictions or policies. I have all the original paperwork
- to back this up if need should arise, by the way.
- You, the recipient, are encouraged to have a look at the
- program interface of RIM and to add command front-ends if you wish
- to replace the somewhat archaic (and arcane) one supplied here. I make
- no claims for the beauty of RIM on the Amiga, but it is a functional
- DBMS suited for large databases and represents the first DBMS
- that I know of that's freely distributable and that IS suited to
- large, multi-table databases.
-
- Finally, my thanks to Fred Fish for distributing Amiga freely
- distributable software, and to Absoft, whose Fortran compiler (V2.3)
- was used to compile this code, and whose policies do not interfere
- with this distribution. You'll need a copy of the Absoft compiler if
- you want to modify the code; all the sources are presented here.
-
- Glenn C. Everhart
- 4/12/1988
- Everhart%Arisia.decnet@GE-CRD.arpa
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