Re: C-ISAM Licences

In article <2dsiv3INNmkq@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> bill@tardis.co.uk (William Hails) writes: :^() :^() frb@solid.co.at (Franz Blaha) wrote: :^() > We are developing now with SCO C-ISAM, but it does not work :^() > in Networkstructures ( NFS/Shared Memory ). :^() :^() > We think, that INFORMIX C-ISAM does not have these problems. :^() :^() > Are we right? If we are, there are some questions: :^() Informix C-ISAM won't work over NFS either. Something to do with :^() NFS not supporting guaranteed append mode (always append at EOF) :^() This may have been addressed in later releases than we run (4.10) :^() but I doubt it. Correct me if I'm wrong. Not in 5.01. The only ISAM that I am aware of that does work across NFS file systems is NetISAM from Sun Microsystems (or is that SunConnect, or SunSoft, or ...). It actually uses RPC calls and a daemon on the server, so there is some middle ground between file system calls. Note, that NetISAM support, I believe, was placed in mature mode at Solaris 2.1 though. Max -- Max Maklin P.O. Box 9707 Technical Analyst 3755 Riverside Drive Cognos Incorporated Ottawa, Ontario CANADA Internet: maklinm@cognos.COM UUNet: maklinm@cognos.UUCP