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- README for SQLEdit for OPENSTEP
- -------------------------------
-
- Welcome to ICOS's latest version of SQLEdit - and now, it runs on WINDOWS NT and 95
- with OPENSTEP from Apple (www.apple.com).
-
- SQLEdit is a useful small application to support EOF developer. The background to
- write such an app was the necessity to handle/modify the database contents via
- DML (data manipulation language) statements that knowns the model identifiers
- and hide the sometimes cryptical database object names.
-
-
- FEATURES
- --------
-
- - within this app you can use model identifier for DML statements or database
- object names in either DML or DDL statements
- - any statements that the database knows about are allowed (dependent on the adaptor
- of the loaded model)
- - private command: 'describe <objectname>;' to get deep informations about model
- or entities
- - can execute a stament list loaded from file (batch manipulations) or single
- statement
- - print result sets to non postscript printers via GhostScript (ftp.cs.wisc.edu)
- (tested with GS version 5.01, you need GSView too)
- - don't need to type in any statement twice: go (by mouse/cursor) to the end of
- that statement (it is behind the semicolon) and press <return> again
- - and much more ...
-
-
- TO DO
- -----
-
- - user defined transactions (at the point every command is a transaction that
- was commited if it was successful or rolled back if it was not)
- - save typed sql statements to file
- - sorting of columns in addition of '... order by ...' clauses
- - connect to a database without a given model
- - any what you really need!
-
-
- CONTACT INFO:
- -------------
-
- EMAIL: rendto@icos.lol.li
- TELE: +41 75 23766-17
- FAX: +41 75 23766-34
- SNAIL: ICOS AG
- Fuerst-Franz-Joseph-Str. 73
- FL-9490 Vaduz
-
- PRICING:
- --------
-
- Free.
-
- Be sure you downloaded the correct version for your hardware and operating system:
-
- Operating System CPU architecture Download:
- ---------------- ----------------- ----------
- Windows NT or Intel SQLEdit_1.05_WIN.tar.gz
- Windows 95
- NOTE:you must be running OPENSTEP 4.2 for Windows - 1-800-try-next):
-
- Others will follow up if needed ... ;-))
-
-
- INSTALLATION:
- ============
-
- Windows NT or 95:
- ================
-
- 1. Unpack the software distribution
-
- a. open a "Bourne Shell" window from OPENSTEP Enterprises folder
- b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp
- cd C:\temp
- c. gunzip the distribution:
- gunzip SQLEdit_1.05_WIN.tar.gz
- d. untar the resulting uncompressed file:
- tar xf SQLEdit_1.05_WIN.tar
- 2. Inside the newly created SQLEdit_1.05_WIN directory will be SQLEdit.app
- a. move SQLEdit.app using File Manager to where you keep your apps
- b. Drag the icon of SQLEdit.exe to a Program Manager folder for easy
- launch
- c. Notify your system of the SQLEdit File types (only if you want
- to open '.eomodel', '.eomodeld' and '.sql' bundles/files by double
- clicking with "SQLEdit.app"!):
- 1. change directory to where SQLEdit.app resides, in this
- example, we'll say that SQLEdit.app is in C:\LocalApps
- cd C:\LocalApps
- 2. Run the registerBundle program by typing:
- registerBundle SQLEdit.app
-
- 3. Launch SQLEdit
- a. Double-click SQLEdit.exe in File Manager
-
-
- 4. Play with SQLEdit:
- a. type in any sql statement ended up with a semicolon sign (';') and press
- <return>
- b. type in 'describe YourModelName;' or 'describe YourEntityName;' to see
- what happens
-
-
- Any suggestions and comments are welcome! Please use e-mail to report bugs and to
- croon songs of praise ...
-
-
- Torsten Rendelmann
-