Re: [ANN] Text-file DBs

2015-11-08 Thread Paul Looney
Kay, I do mention the different ways different OSes handle the CR/LF/CRLF. Going further than that is definitely beyond the scope of the work - and, to be honest, beyond my ability. I can see where Unicode (non-ASCII characters) would be important to users of non-Roman languages (BTW, one of m

Re: [ANN] Text-file DBs

2015-11-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Paul Looney wrote: > > Here are the chapters (let me know if I missed something, I almost forgot > to have a chapter on CSV - a subject about which I have strong feelings): > > Paul, I don't wish to 'add the straw' on what clearly is a very large undertaking, but

Re: [ANN] Text-file DBs

2015-11-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
The link to the library is no longer viable. Bob S > On Nov 5, 2015, at 15:42 , Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > Hi Paul > > After reading your post, I just remember Serendipity Library: > http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2002-September/007745.html > > Do you used this library rele

Re: [ANN] Text-file DBs

2015-11-05 Thread Paul Looney
.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2002-September/007745.html > > Do you used this library released by Rob Cozens? > > Al > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-Text-file-DBs-tp4698379p4698515.html > Sent from the R

Re: [ANN] Text-file DBs

2015-11-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Paul After reading your post, I just remember Serendipity Library: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2002-September/007745.html Do you used this library released by Rob Cozens? Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-Text-file

Re: [ANN] Text-file DBs

2015-11-05 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Paul - I'd be really interested in helping / proof reading / asking stupid questions :) On 5 November 2015 at 17:57, Paul Looney wrote: > David, Sri, Robert, Bruce, Matt, > > Sorry you can’t come tonight. I understand that little "distance problem”. > > The presentation will not be record

Re: [ANN] Text-file DBs

2015-11-05 Thread Paul Looney
David, Sri, Robert, Bruce, Matt, Sorry you can’t come tonight. I understand that little "distance problem”. The presentation will not be recorded. It is hard enough preparing all of the material without spending a couple days deciding what to wear. ;-) I have been working on a small book (origi

Re: [ANN] Text-file DBs

2015-11-05 Thread Matt Maier
I can bring my webcam in case it's useful. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, David Bovill wrote: > Paul I'd love to see the presentation - would be great if you could record > it or we could arrange to do it as an online session with people from the > list? > > On 3 November 2015 at 05:02, Paul Lo

Re: [ANN] Text-file DBs

2015-11-05 Thread David Bovill
Paul I'd love to see the presentation - would be great if you could record it or we could arrange to do it as an online session with people from the list? On 3 November 2015 at 05:02, Paul Looney wrote: > This coming Thursday evening, Nov. 5th, I will doing a presentation on > Text-file Database

Re: [ANN] Text-file DBs

2015-11-05 Thread Sri
.com/ANN-Text-file-DBs-tp4698379p4698484.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pre

Re: [ANN] Text-file DBs

2015-11-05 Thread Robert Brenstein
I wish I could come. I am tasked to build exactly such a thing for the department. Do you have any files that you can share? RObert On 02.11.2015 at 21:02 Uhr -0800 Paul Looney apparently wrote: This coming Thursday evening, Nov. 5th, I will doing a presentation on Text-file Databases at the S

[ANN] Text-file DBs

2015-11-02 Thread Paul Looney
This coming Thursday evening, Nov. 5th, I will doing a presentation on Text-file Databases at the So. Cal. LUG meeting. If you have wondered whether there is some data processing option between the limits of card-file databases and complexity of SQL RDBMS, come and find out. I will show how to b