Re: [gentoo-user] Excessively simple flatfile database

2007-11-10 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Sounds like you want to use a spreadsheet. You try OpenOffice? On Nov 10, 2007 6:55 PM, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 prin

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessively simple flatfile database

2007-11-10 Thread Alan E. Davis
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 fun

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessively simple flatfile database

2007-11-10 Thread felix
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 y

[gentoo-user] Excessively simple flatfile database

2007-11-10 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am posting to this list as a first resort. I hope this is not off topic. I've been searching for a very simple database program. I've used edb (emacs database) and that works ok, for some things. All I need right now is a simple, searchable, sortable list of laboratory and field data for a r