Hello Console apps are definitely more suitable for routine data feeding apps like library/reservation systems. ncurses C library is one way of doing it. However GUI (e.g Dotnet Forms) can be designed to minimize use of mouse (enabling tab sequence by specifying indexes), advantage being that more advanced controls (say date picker etc) can be used as need arises in future.
You can talk to technical people at any Railway Reservation Office. I once asked them about possible use of Optical Character Recognition for speedy processing of forms written in English instead of slow manual data typing. It is will be interesting to know how each local reservation terminal uploads data to central database (to which http://www.indianrail.gov.in/ and http://www.indianrail.gov.in/) are web application front ends. Hold on ! I just found required page http://www.cris.org.in/uts.htm HTH On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:46:59 +0530, komal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I am very impressed by Railway reservation system. I want to know which > database Railway reservation system uses? Are they using Linux on Oracle? In > which programming language Railway reservation system is developed? I like > console-based apps not bloated GUI apps, which requires mouse. I want to > deploy such application for my client using MySQL but not sure, which front > I should use. What about ncurses? > > Thank you > Komal > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- Vijay Patil -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
