From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d5f657e0da473b40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: DBF/Network Application References: From: Brian May X-Home-Page: http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~bam/ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:28:30 +1000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HAHGWmEqJ+1AnWWQ6hvydv0DMf0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-202-173-153-89.vic.westnet.com.au X-Trace: news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com 1087536511 202.173.153.89 (18 Jun 2004 15:28:31 +1000) X-Complaints-To: abuse@pipenetworks.com X-Abuse-Info: Please forward all headers to enable your complaint to be properly processed. Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.moat.net!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1643 Date: 2004-06-18T15:28:30+10:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Catlin writes: Brian> Take a look at http://www.adalog.fr/publicat/aws.pdf They Brian> dealt with many of the same issues that you are struggling Brian> with Thanks for the reference. Unfortunately (for me at least!), it appears that they decided to "upgrade" from their DBF files to a SQL based database, and a web based/HTML communications meets there communication requirements. Hence, they have not considered how to read/write DBF files or get two programs communicating to each other with structured & low bandwidth data. -- Brian May