On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Bernd wrote:
The structure is like this example:
123.45 Ab123 Abub, Bob All My Favorite Stories
567.89 B45 Banks, Billy Best Loved Chemistry Experiments
Each group of 3 lines would be a record describing a book (call no., author, title).
I typically have 450-500 of these in a file. How can I make this file into a database? (Using Linux tools.)
It is a _database_. :-) You've just described the schema. For what purpose do you want to use the database?
For a person to assign a subject code (e.g. history, art, science) to each book (this would be an additional field) and create reports by subject. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional KMail 1.0.29.2 Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************************