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Article #2259Re: Where is the ftp site for edb, a database package
From: Gary Sanders
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 00:29
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 00:29
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In article <YSHEN.94Sep23140853@bmerhba8.bnr.ca>,
Yu Shen 34581 <yshen@bmerhba8.bnr.ca> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for the ftp site for a database package edb. Thank you for
>your information.
I was going to tell you to look on comp.databases because I could not find
it at first because you put it in lower case letters. Tisk tisk :-)
name: EDB, the Emacs database
version: 1.17
interfaces: Emacs, Emacs Lisp
multiuser: no
transactions: no
distributed: no
query language: Emacs Lisp
limits: same as for Emacs -- typically 8 or 32 MB
robustness: fairly high -- currently being used for mission-critical data
description: EDB provides simple database access in a "user-friendly" Emacs
environment for flat files. Extensions for linking records and
relational-like operations exist, and further extensions are
easy to make.
EDB is documented by a 110-page manual, complete with indices
discussion: edb-list-request@theory.lcs.mit.edu
bugs: mernst@theory.lcs.mit.edu or edb-list@theory.lcs.mit.edu
requires: GNU Emacs 18, GNU Emacs 19, or Lucid Emacs
ports: any computer that runs Emacs -- that is, almost any computer
restrictions: GNU Public License
author: Michael Ernst <mernst@theory.lcs.mit.edu>
how to get: ftp pub/emacs/edb/edb.tar.Z from theory.lcs.mit.edu
updated: 1993/06/16
>--
>Yu Shen
>Software Designer
>BNR, Ottawa, Canada
>(613) 763-4581
>
>My expression here does not represent BNR's.
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