On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Damon Muller wrote: > This isn't specificically a Debian question, but I'm hoping that the > combined knowledge locked up in this group might be able to point me in the > right direction... > > I've recently acquired myself a little old laptop, which, with help from > the group, is now loaded up and chugging along with Debian installed on it. > This year I'm also doing my Masters, and so I'm going to have to be keeping > track of a whole lot of literature and ideas and things like that. I've > decided that my brain isn't up to the task, so I might need a bit of > software help :) > > What I'm basically looking for is something along the lines of a freeform > text database that will run under Linux (prefereable GPL'd or Freeware). > Another possibility is DOSEMU, but native linux would be the prefered choice. > > Something which I can just use as a searchable cardfile or something like > that would be good, but I have yet to find something like that that'll work > under linux. I have got edb, which is a database that runs under emacs, but > i'm not yet sure if that's really what I'm after. Also do know if I can be > bothered working out how to create a new database (am I the only one who > can't remember a million M-x emacs commands?). > > Surely there must be something like this around? I can't be the only linux > user who has ever thought something like this would be A Good Thing. Any > advice, tips, pointers, or anything like that would be greatly appreciated!
How much "documents" or "records" should you database hold ?? If it't only a few, I would use simple text files (eventually with mail-like headers) and search them with grep. Or built a small Tcl/Tk + perl frontend for it. If you like to have binary files in your database, you could code them with mime. I know this isn't a real database. But you can use it, if you will not have much documents in it. Have fun with it. Bye Daniel -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Gross eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hollarstrasse 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-85053 Ingolstadt, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]