Re: Windows Links to Informix C-Isam files

In article <C6FGwr.FFp@inform.co.nz> paul@inform.co.nz (Paul Roussell) writes: >C-Isam is a product of Informix, and is also sometimes known as the Informix >"Standard Engine" (as distinct from their "Online Engine") I believe. Nope; SE uses C-ISAM files, but they are not the same product. >As slight added complications, these files I need to access are actually held >on another machine, accessed via NFS, and are written by cloned C-Isam >routines (called D-Isam, from Byte Design) .... but that's another story. "slight"?!?! Two things: 1) NFS is not a trivial issue, and not all NFS implementations support reliable record locking with tolerable performance; 2) D-ISAM claims compatibility only with C-ISAM 2.04, which is about 8 years old and is funamentally incompatible with *any* version of SE. -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland "We should all try to pay our taxes with a smile. I tried that, but they wanted cash." -- Whimsical Will