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 Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!bigfeed2.bellsouth.net!news.bellsouth.net!elnk-atl-nf1!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!decbec26!not-for-mail From: "Brian Catlin" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: DBF/Network Application Organization: Sannas Consulting X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2096 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2096 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:50:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.101.84.69 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1087581022 67.101.84.69 (Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:50:22 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:50:22 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1669 Date: 2004-06-18T17:50:22+00:00 List-Id: "Brian May" wrote in message news:sa4d63xo2o1.fsf@snoopy.apana.org.au... >>>>>> "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. You can access .DBF files using ODBC (at least on Windows). To talk to ODBC using Ada (again, on Windows), see http://www.adapower.com/os/odbc.html Also, take a look at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/contrib.html -Brian