Jon Pennington wrote:

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, you wrote:

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http://www.georgetoft.com/owl

If you want to see the source code, I'll e-mail it to ya. -- George Toft http://www.georgetoft.com

That's just amazing (to non-coders like myself). I would like to see the source, just to see how it's done. You wouldn't be violating any NDA's or anything silly like that, would you?

Nope. I wrote the database with three others. We tried to use a SQL database, but the response took 11 seconds for a simple query going through the loopback device via a CGI script. From the console, it was very fast, but as soon as we used the web server and CGI, it was horribly slow. So we tried some bash scripting, and it was much faster. Weird. (This was almost two years ago.) Other problems we had were with the commercial SQL databases - they required a Pentium processor, and our web server was a 486. We settled on writing it bash as I didn't know Perl at the time. Our team had a database admin, a business admin, an NT admin, and myself (as team keader). We pulled it off successfully: The product was delivered on time and within budget. Many people can't believe a database can be written in bash, but it can. It slows down unacceptably as the database grows, but it works as a rapid prototype. Source code: ftp://georgetoft.com/georgetoft/owl-html.tgz - goes in html dir ftp://georgetoft.com/georgetoft/owl-cgi.tgz - goes in cgi-bin dir In this case, the owner is a member of the nobody group so that the deveolper and httpd can modify the tables. -- George Toft http://www.georgetoft.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/