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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 08:28:18 -0500
From: David McKee <david DOT mckee AT rtp DOT gtegsc DOT com>
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To: Holger Vogelsang <vogelsan AT i50s20 DOT ira DOT uka DOT de>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Persistence in Djgpp
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Holger Vogelsang wrote:
> 
> I've written a very small library for persistent objects,
> which uses a relational database to store the objects. But
> I think, the database is not free (I'm not shure, because
> it was created at our institute). Maybe I'll port it to
> another database system, which should not be very difficult.
> Or is anybody else interested to port my library ? I would
> like to offer the source code under GPL or something like that.
> 
> Some details:
> 
> - It has been ported to the following platforms:
>   * DJGPP 1.x and 2.x
>   * LinuX (i386)
>   * Sparc (SUNOS 4.1.3 and SOLARIS)
>   * WIN 3.11, 95, NT (Borland C, Visual C++)
>   * SGI
> - It is 3 - 4 times faster (loading, writing objects ) than Poet,
>   a commercial persistent object system.
> - There already exists some documentation.
> - Using our own runtime type information system, the database
>   is portable between all platforms.
> - It is used sine 1994 in several projects at our institute
>   and works very stable.
> 
> Holger
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Holger Vogelsang
> Institut fuer Mikrorechner und Automation, Universitaet Karlsruhe
> Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 7,  D-76131 Karlsruhe
> Tel.: +49+721 6083170, Fax : +49+721 9663756
> WWW: http://www-ima.ira.uka.de/mitarbeiter/vogelsan/

This sounds interesting, and there are a variety of btrieve type 
database engines freely available.  If there is a port of one of
these to DJGPP your code may easily be combined if your own
databse is proprietary.


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