Re: [gentoo-user] Excessively simple flatfile database

Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. I want to have a record of my specimens and preparations, in a format that can be retrieved in various ways, sorted, and printed. A record, like a card file. Nothing compilcated, don't need a server. I'm thinking emacs data base. I guess I want database functionality without the complexities.

Alan

On Nov 11, 2007 11:50 AM, <felix@crowfix.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:23:42AM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > May I elicit suggestions?
>
> Do you want simple key=value pair (perl hash, associative array, etc)
> where one key gives one value? Your value may of course be tab
> separted sub values or anythig really.
>
> They are hard to search, but if you know the keys, always or often
> enough, they are simple. I don't know any package names, but Berkeley
> DB is one free source product.
>
> If you need to search on anything very often, key or value, they
> probably aren't it.
>
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