Re: Newbie, please help me !

R1 wrote: > > I'm starting a new job. > My company purchased Informix in 1995, but nobody has used it. > We've decided to use Informix tools in order to replace progressively our > older system > (dcpa with DPL) > My company is specialized in documents' personalization. > It means : with a certain quantity of paper which have the same background, > we have > to print each document with particular datas (name, address, account > number, etc.) > In entry, all these datas are generally stored in a txt file but there's no > systematic > partitions between the fields (may be a blank, a character etc., it depends > of the customer) > On these datas, we have several treatments (see attachment), but the most > important is to sort its > for the production. > We dispose of : > * INFORMIX SE V5 Run Time > * INFORMIX RDS RT 4GL > * INFORMIX SQL developpment > > is this version obsolete ? Yes. > Is the job possible with such tools ? Yes. But it would be a good idea to upgrade. Art S. Kagel