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Hello,
Tuviah -- I see you are on this list too.. ;-) In that case, let me
publically thank you for your help (as well as everyone elses!).. It was
Tuviah who initially took a look at it, and gave me an answer -- I cannot
thank you enough for all of that....
I sort of cross-posted on here at about the same time, so that's the
reason for the redundancy...
I also appreciate you looking into the Darwin/OS-X thing, that will be a
huge help...
A couple of remaining points:
On the subject of ascii import... I know that I can use the VXCMD
commands to do the ascii import, the problem is I cannot do it from the
command line because of the OS-X/Darwin (aka Mach-O/CFM issue?)...
Getting this to work, of course, would be a HUGE
benefit... But, it is overkill for what I really need, which is just a
couple of command-line utilities for creating/loading/querying the
database.... I'm not sure which one is easier to do or which one makes
the most sense to do -- I'm just putting it
out there because at the end of the day it would be great if there were
some command line utilities to manipulate the Valentina databases in some
way... In the ideal world we would have both of these options (the
VXCMD working under the Darwin engine a
s well as some built-in command line utilities which come packaged with
Valentina...)...
On the subject of OS-X/Darwin... I just don't have a clue how difficult
it would be to develop such command line tools, but if the effort is not
difficult it would be a huge benefit to those of us who are using Mac OS-
X as a gateway to moving UNIX based
products to PC/Mac platforms.... There do not seem to be many bridges
between them and this would be an extremely elegant one..... Because
OS-X's database support is very UNIX-like (Postgres and MySQL come to
mind immediately) and it also supports thi
s wonderful Valentina database which seems much more suitable for desktop
deployment, it becomes much easier to leverage OS-X as a tool for briding
this gap -- the potential is great to me (though honestly I don't know
how many UNIX folks know about Valen
tina or even metacard/revolution)....
On a related note, is there any reason that Valentina could not be
expanded to support some of the more popular UNIX operating systems?...
I'm not sure what the difficult would be in porting it, but give it's
performance it seems like it could be a grea
t alternative to projects which do not require transactional support
(such as those which are currently being handled by MySQL) and not
require a seperate server process.... Just a thought....
You folks are all great with the support, your responses are very
impressive....
- Greg
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