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: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:13:44 +1000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Me/qIRtcM+ZUreNeDhZ/6BN3XL0= 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 1087614824 202.173.153.89 (19 Jun 2004 13:13:44 +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!cyclone.bc.net!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!news.xtra.co.nz!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1681 Date: 2004-06-19T13:13:44+10:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Catlin writes: Brian> You can access .DBF files using ODBC (at least on Windows). Cool. I was wondering about this. At least some of the information I have received seems to contradict itself, so just trying to work this out is difficult. Presumably, you setup the DBF file in the Windows control panel? Brian> To talk to ODBC using Ada (again, on Windows), see Brian> http://www.adapower.com/os/odbc.html Thanks for the reference. It seems to use Win32 ODBC calls directly to access the database. Brian> Also, take a look at Brian> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/contrib.html English would be a cool feature ... ;-). No doubt you were referring me to databases.tgz, which looks like a higher level layer on top of the Win32 calls. Another solution is , although at a quick glance the quality of databases.tgz looks better. Both appear to be Windows specific solutions. I probably should re-investigate GNADE again, it would appear to be the most portable solution. Thanks! -- Brian May