Re: Linux & Client Server

On Tue, 12 Sep 1995, Jason Lambert wrote: > On Sun, 10 Sep 1995, Spokey the Wheeler wrote: > > } In article <DELI7I.3Ax@boi.hp.com> courtney@boi.hp.com "Randall Courtney" writes: > } > } > Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix > } > On 8 Sep 1995, Storm Software wrote: > } > > } > >You might try an idea I have been kicking around but haven't had the time to > } > >try... I was thinking that you might try is writing a program that using the > } > >informix API and RPC you could access the informix DB Engine from the Linux > } > >box. Then from there you could use a C-program or a write a TCL interface > } > >(or so on). Of course TCL/TK as a client to the informix DB would be a VERY > } > >nice X11 GUI solution. > } > } Dear Storm Software, > } > } Is this your entry for the most TLA-compliant newsgroup entry for 1995? > } > } Since I *clearly* missed the original article, could you try and re-phrase > } this in English or at least clarify *which* API your talking about? :-) ok, here it goes. TCL - Tool Command Language TK - Tool Kit (GUI Interface) X11 - A way cool Windowing system, that kick Micro$oft's butt. not to mention, the windowing system that they took alot idea's from when writing W95. (sorry soapbox) DB - duh, Database. API - Application Programmer's Interface GUI - Graphical User Interface (Like the way cool X11R6) RPC - Remote Procedure Calls The original question was if Informix or anyone else had an Informix DB network based Client/Server system to allow a group of Linux machines to talk to an Informix Server. And this was my suggested solution. The API I was talking about was the Informix ESQL-C Interface. I was saying that you could create a library of subroutines that call ESQL-C function to Query the Informix database. (I not sure, but I think this would be called a ODBC?!?) Then with RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) you could distribute this library across the network to client computers. On The client end you could take this RPC client side stub library to build a TCL/TK to it. So what you would get would be a client-server way of accessing the Informix DB and a GUI interface to boot (With TK). That would allow Linux to use an Informix database on a server machine like it had (I-Net/I-Star). It shouldn't be to hard to build a library to do it. If you think about it you could take the ODBC specs and write from there. If you were a real manly programmer you could make this stub library into a DLL for Linux. Then if you needed you could use the dlload system in GCC (GNU C Compiler) to dynamicily load and unload different ODBC drivers on the fly. It's pretty simple really.. If I had the time I would most likely write one just learn something about ODBC. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jason Lambert Bass, Inc. CIX Support Analyst 2211 Arbor Blvd. (513) 293-5732 Dayton, Ohio jlambert@bassinc.com 45439 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=