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- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Subject: Re: Flatfile db recommendations
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.080902.4713@ericsson.se>
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- Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
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- References: <1992Nov16.185656.9983@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:09:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.185656.9983@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Operator) writes:
- |> Has anyone invented a general purpose flatfile database in perl? My boss
- |> doesn't need oracle. He needs something that will act as rolodex, biblio-
- |> graphy, etc.
- |>
- |> I've found a few in C but none quite fit our needs, and my C is not fluent
- |> enough yet to casually adapt other people's semidocumented code.
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- A couple of db's you could look at are shql, an sql database system
- built using standard utilities and q, a db implemented in awk in
- "The AWK programming language". As perl has the facilities of both sh
- and awk it should be possible to rebuild both in perl.
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- Michael Salmon
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