From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 9 19: 2: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Edison.EBICom.Net (Edison.EBICom.Net [216.131.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14307156B1 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 19:02:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from moose@ebicom.net) Received: from inferno (dissention.ebicom.net [216.131.5.8]) by Edison.EBICom.Net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA14726; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 21:01:53 -0600 Message-ID: <00d901bf42bd$4ec9e690$0101a8c0@inferno.dissention.ebicom.net> From: "John Sanders" To: "stephen" Cc: , "Langa Kentane" , , Subject: Re: POS System Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 21:18:57 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 I don't see anyone writing something from scratch at this point in the ISS 45's lifespan, as it will soon become outdated in its capabilities.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 To: John Sanders Cc: dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com ; Langa Kentane ; linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu ; 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 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