Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. I want to have a record of my specimens and preparations, in a format that can be retrieved in various ways, sorted, and printed. A record, like a card file. Nothing compilcated, don't need a server. I'm thinking emacs data base. I guess I want database functionality without the complexities.
Alan On Nov 11, 2007 11:50 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:23:42AM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > > May I elicit suggestions? > > Do you want simple key=value pair (perl hash, associative array, etc) > where one key gives one value? Your value may of course be tab > separted sub values or anythig really. > > They are hard to search, but if you know the keys, always or often > enough, they are simple. I don't know any package names, but Berkeley > DB is one free source product. > > If you need to search on anything very often, key or value, they > probably aren't it. > > -- > ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. > Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license > #4933 > I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of > room o > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..." ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man