Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 21:18:57 -0600 From: "John Sanders" <moose@ebicom.net> To: "stephen" <schan_ca@geocities.com> Cc: <dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com>, "Langa Kentane" <evablunted@earthling.net>, <linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: POS System Message-ID: <00d901bf42bd$4ec9e690$0101a8c0@inferno.dissention.ebicom.net>
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Well, this system is pretty in depth...it does run on TCP/IP over a 10BaseT Ethernet LAN. The system uses IP's 129.103.2.1 - 129.103.2.254 (MFS1 = 129.103.2.1, MFS2 = 129.103.2.2, LFS3 = 129.103.2.3, LFS10 = 129.103.2.10, POS1 = 129.103.2.11, POS254 = 129.103.2.254) with MFS1 being the Primary file server, MFS2 being the Backup file server, LFS3 - 10 being workstations (difference between workstations and servers in this system is, the workstations cannot do parameter maintenance). POS1-254 are registers 1 - 254 The database system is something i've never seen anywhere outside this system, it is called "Quick-Dex" or "QDex" for short. Basically it consists of roughly 120 files, each performing its own little function, for example, "transact.qdx" is the transaction file, storing all sales, all signon/sign offs, order suspends/retrieves, etc. you have 3 or 4 PLU (UPC) files, that store of course, PLU information, and indexes. (The index files can rebuild all of its "children" files on a reboot & reload of the database into memory, if the file dosent match the index, it rebuilds them). Files that handle cashier accountability, POS accountability, departmental sales, etc. It's quite extensive. I don't see anyone writing something from scratch at this point in the ISS 45's lifespan, as it will soon become outdated in its capabilities. Which is why i was wondering about a system being written previously to handle this. If you would like file layouts, that is not a problem. Sorry to all on the list if they feel this is irrelevant. John Sanders -----Original Message----- From: stephen <schan_ca@geocities.com> To: John Sanders <moose@ebicom.net> Cc: dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com <dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com>; Langa Kentane <evablunted@earthling.net>; linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu>; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Thursday, December 09, 1999 5:40 PM Subject: Re: POS System >John Sanders wrote: > >> I would also be interested in the same, if anyone comes up with something. >> I would love to see a POS back end system more than anything, >> that interfaces to the ICL/Fujitsu ISS 45 system. I for one work for an >> ICL/Fujitsu >> Retail partner (we sell their retail software/hardware), but i'm sick and >> tired of >> our current system constantly becoming corrupted and the system going down >> under serious loads (it runs on NT 4.0). It was written by ICL, so you'd >> think it >> would be more stable eh? At any rate sorry for the rambling, but if anyone >> turns up anything I would <really> like to know, simply because I'm positive >> FreeBSD could handle any load placed on it by one of our sites. > >To start we need specs, protocol and backend DB tables. > >Stephen Chan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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