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From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@phoenix.net>
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Subject: Re: POS (was Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it.)
To: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com (M.C Wong)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 22:31:57 -0500 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199502012354.AA167432870@hp.com> from "M.C Wong" at Feb 2, 95 10:53:21 am
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> 
> > For databases, they could go Ingres or even spend some time beating on
> > postgres to make it something more of what they want.  For a lot of
> > applications, however, even that's overkill and they could always just
> > use their own file format and B-trees or something.  The DB package we
> > ship with isn't even that bad now, actually, and you could certainly
> > do something like a small sawmill's work-order database with it.
> > 
> > 						Jordan
> > 
> For databases, if you can convince Multisoft to do a port of FlagShip for 
> *BSD, that will be great. They've got one for Linux, and are well received.
> VERSASOFT even has dBASE III+ compatible DBMS for Linux as well. Both have
> got demo and well, they look great!
> 
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  M.C Wong 				   Email: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com 

For us to get FlagShip to do the port, we would have to have SysV terminal
stuff up to snuff.

Gary