[LINK] Really dumb question

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

(Thanks also to Con Z for the OO suggestion. I will look into it as well!

Howard Lowndes wrote:

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> rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
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>> Linkers,
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>> It's a long time since I ran a database ... think "Pick" as the 
>> system and you'll get the picture.
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> I'd rather not, I am having to rethink Pick after 9 years away from it.

Time doesn't ease the pain, does it? Pick was under a popular 
book-and-bill system in the publishing business for a while. It was 
finally and mercifully killed by the unbelievable cost of connecting to 
Ethernet. Let's see: a different license, "X" number of serial ports 
connected to a serial-LAN interface, only as many LAN users as serial 
ports ... ugh!

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>> So: seeking something to handle simple tables - no transaction stuff 
>> - I've been schooling myself in the ways of things like MySQL.
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>> Now, the database stuff itself is going okay, but I would also like 
>> to give the ultimate users of the db a nice, or at least livable, 
>> data entry form, and here's the stinger. What should I be looking for 
>> in the FOSS world to design simple non-Web server forms for a MySQL 
>> database?
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> ReKall  http://www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/
> They have both a GPL and a non-GPL version available.

I'll look it up, despite my misgivings at putting my fate in the hands 
of Philip K Dick fans ...

RC

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>> Richard Chirgwin
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