Hi, Datadesign is pretty good, and I believe its source code is available, if necessary.
Perhaps time to switch? Wolfgang > Hi Bob, > > The main problem with the DBAS package was the lack of source code. > > I think that bug fixes were done from disassembles of the original code. > > This is a great pity, as DBAS was one of the best packages around for > the QL. > > Phil Borman's PBOX BBS software used DBAS to store messages and other > configuration data files. > > I always wanted to convert my BBS system to a web site running on a QL. > Maybe a project for the future. > > Regards,Derek > > On 27/04/16 15:28, Bob Spelten wrote: >> Op Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:05:16 +0200 schreef Norman Dunbar >> <nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk>: >> >>> Thanks Marcel. >>> Sorry Bob, I was of no help whatsoever. :-( >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Norm. >>> >>> On 27 April 2016 14:52:59 BST, Marcel Kilgus >>> <ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net> wrote: >>>> Norman Dunbar wrote: >>>>> Dilwyn has www.dilwyn.me.uk/database/dbas.zip which is version 2.12 >>>>> and appears to have sources in libdbas_source_arc - I don't have >>>>> anything that can open arc files on my laptop here, so it might not >>>> have what you want. >>>> >>>> These are the sources for libdbas, the C interface library. Not very >>>> useful I'm afraid. >>>> >>>> Marcel >>>> >>> >> Thanks both, >> >> My ACP pretends to unpack the _arc but no lib files can be found. >> C is not helping me anyway. >> The demo program DBPTR does not seem to produce this bug and only uses >> DATA_bin so that suggests the problem is in the Basic extensions of >> DBAS_bin. >> >> Bob >> > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
