tiny-cobol-users

[Tiny-cobol-users] Berkeley db?

[Mark M. <mar...@ed...>]

It seems all of the GNU packages require berkley db even though some
pages list it as optional.  How do I get a package like tiny-cobol to
work if Oracle does not allow ( or I can't find it ) berkeley db
downloads?  

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Berkeley db?

[John C. <jo...@we...>]

On Monday 24 September 2007 04:20:25 pm Mark Molenda wrote:
> It seems all of the GNU packages require berkley db even though some
> pages list it as optional.  How do I get a package like tiny-cobol to
> work if Oracle does not allow ( or I can't find it ) berkeley db
> downloads?

Don't understand what Oracle has to do with it. Tiny Cobol has no relation to 
Oracle, nor does Berkeley DB (note spelling.) What Operating System are you 
using?  
-- 
John Culleton
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Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Berkeley db?

[John C. <jo...@we...>]

On Tuesday 25 September 2007 08:44:28 am John Culleton wrote:
> On Monday 24 September 2007 04:20:25 pm Mark Molenda wrote:
> > It seems all of the GNU packages require berkley db even though some
> > pages list it as optional.  How do I get a package like tiny-cobol to
> > work if Oracle does not allow ( or I can't find it ) berkeley db
> > downloads?
>
> Don't understand what Oracle has to do with it. Tiny Cobol has no relation
> to Oracle, nor does Berkeley DB (note spelling.) What Operating System are
> you using?

On rereading your post I gather that you want to download data from Oracle 
into a Berkeley DB database.  Is that correct? If you can download your data 
into  fixed lenngth records or alternately into comma delimited records then 
you can read them into a COBOL program and populate a Berkeley DB file 
(indexed sequential file) with the information. 

Am I getting closer? 

-- 
John Culleton
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http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Berkeley db?

[David E. <de...@us...>]

Mark Molenda wrote:

 > It seems all of the GNU packages require Berkley db
 > even though some pages list it as optional.
 > How do I get a package like tiny-cobol to work if Or*cle
 > does not allow ( or I can't find it ) Berkeley db
 > downloads?

Berkeley DB is required for all RPM based distributions (RH, Fedora ...).
It is even available on Slackware in binary format. I do not know about
Debian.

So the quick solution is to install the BDB binary package, from what
ever Linux/BSD distribution you are using.

TC uses the BDB 1.85 API. Which means that you will be able to use any
DB version 1.85 to 4x (4.4 I think).
Beginning with BDB version 4.5, I think, the 1.85 API is no longer
supported, so TC will not work with these versions.

Hope this helps.


Berkeley DB, a brief history.

Versions up to 1.85.4 are released under the BSD license.

A new company is formed called Sleepyc*t, and beginning with BDB version
2, the API and license are changed (open source, but free for non
commercial use only). The 1.85 API is still supported.

Or*cle buys Sleepyc*t. The end.