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- From: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: 95LX databases
- Message-ID: <58015@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 08:38:57 GMT
- References: <20809@acorn.co.uk> <ljki4jINNa2m@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- Reply-To: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
- Organization: UMass, Amherst MA + Temporal Sys & Computer Networks Bombay India
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- In article <ljki4jINNa2m@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
- > In article <20809@acorn.co.uk> asmith@acorn.co.uk (Andy Smith) writes:
- > >It loads into the phone book,...
- >
- > That's clever, to use the phone book to access a database. What do
- > you do if you want the records sorted by other than alphabetic order?
-
- uh ho !
-
- I had just logged in with the intention of writing up on
- precisely this... when I see this post ! I've been beaten to it ! ;-)
-
- Yes indeed. The PHONE book can be used as a very convenent database.
- That coupled with the 95Buddy features (renaming of the fields,
- date, time stamps, and the great phone-link !) make it a very
- neat and tidy unstructured database.
-
- You cannot sort or rearrange the records in different orders, but
- for what use I have put it to, that is not necessary. Search and
- find are very much needed, and they work very well.
-
- Over the last weekend I've compiled a database with most of the useful
- parts of the HP95lx documentation, and command documentation for all
- the commands (including debug etc) Each record shows up on the index
- screen with the NAME and USAGE sections, calling up the card shows the
- DESCRIPTION and BUGS also. For extra long entries, the 95Buddy expCard
- features warps me into MEMO-land. And any entry in an extended record
- (aka expCard) can chain back to another record in the PBK databases,
- hypertext style .. thanx to 95BUddy's Plink. (Thank Jeff Mattox, my
- registration soon in the mail ... 95Buddy for this alone !) The
- entries are in sort of UNIX man like style, but very brief.
-
- Also, I found a nice tight FORTH, MINI4th (aka min4th25.arc)
- out on one of the simtel20 mirrors. Only 4K or so makes a very
- small and nice package. I have the entire source documentation of the
- words of mini4th in a PBK database, making a very convinent refernce.
-
- For a while now, I've been using the Phone book to also note
- down tidbits that I pick up. The Find and Only features are a great
- boon here, since I tag each record with a keyword.
-
- I found no reason to use something like LXfile instead, since
- this served my purpose of orgainsing flat data very well indeed!
-
- -- shrikumar ( shri@legato.cs.umass.edu )
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