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Re: Inventories
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:20:26 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Christian Holtje writes:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 02:00:21AM +0000, Mike Poindexter wrote:
> > If you or some others want to, let me know and I will get one started up.
> > With enough people, we could have a lot of data pretty quickly. For a final
> > version, we could set up a runtime access copy so that people without MS
> > Access can still use it.
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> How about using something the rest of the world can use? perl and the dbi
> interface is fairly portable, works in NT, Mac, Unix, etc.
Problem is that I have no time to go through the learning curve for perl to
set it up in that. I know Access.
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> Nothing can stop you using Access, but Access isn't something your non-NT
> hobbiest will have.
Since Access is part of MS-Office, it will run on both the WinTel and Mac
systems. It is not just for NT. Besides, if people aren't running either of
those systems, what are they running? Linux or Unix? If they are, they would
most likely be savvy enough to write their own front end to the Jet database.
Also, with the runtime version, Windows/Mac users would not have to have
Access. The file would be an executable program.
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> I prefer using opensource tools, but barring that, at least easy to obtain
> tools. It is one of the things that makes me sad about a lot of the
> programs for Lego. Only leo cad runs under anything WinTel, and the
> source isn't available (yet).
For easy to obtain, I think Access is fairly easy to get. I see MS-Office 97
Pro all over for $50-$75 bucks. Sure, there are cheaper ones to use, but time
is valuable too and saving numerous hours of my time is worth the investment.
If you want a non-windows Lego CAD, program it yourself, but don't expect that
others should program it and then give it away, source code and all. Don't
get me wrong, I think open source is great. It is just not viable for all
software applications. Fortunately, I think it would be fine for this one.
Mike Poindexter
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| (...) Is MacOffice still a viable thing? Especially MacAccess -- since the Access file format changes with each release, and there is no cross-version compatibility (only backwards compatibility--newer releases. of Access can read (and sometimes (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) How about using something the rest of the world can use? perl and the dbi interface is fairly portable, works in NT, Mac, Unix, etc. Nothing can stop you using Access, but Access isn't something your non-NT hobbiest will have. I prefer using (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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