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From: marwk@levels.sait.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: CData - the Cheap Data Base Management System
Message-ID: <1131@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 14 Aug 89 16:43:15 GMT
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In article <191@s5000uunet!s5000>, alan@s5000uunet!s5000 (Al Kiecker) writes:
> I am also interested in what enhancments, bugs, etc. have been made/fixed
> to CData. I just today bought a copy of the book per recommendation of a friend.
> My initial impression is that it looks like something that could form the basis
> for a very sophisticated RDBMS at VERY low cost. If there is sufficient 
> interest perhaps we ought to start a mailing list. Any interest??
> 

I have modified the screen handling so that the filename of the file given
on the command line of qd (the query program) is used automatically in
screen.c to provide userdefined names of the fields and also arbitrary
locations of the fields - checks are on various aspects like overlapping
fields;  I have used a modified schema to do this.  This makes the screen
more professional looking.

I would like to be part of any discussions on CDATA and in particular have
my name added to any mailing list.

Ray