Re: what is c-isam?

---- you wrote: > In article <88u13k$rpc$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, > bjonesxx@my-deja.com wrote: > > I have inherited a c-isam application running on solaris 2.6. I am > > curious exactly what c-isam is. From what I can tell it has no > > database engine running. It appears to be just flat files sitting > > there. > > C-ISAM is exactly that. It's an old standard for a database that uses > flat files for data access. You are most likely running a Standard > Engine (SE) database. This means that there is no engine to run. All > data access is via C-ISAM programs, or possibly through an interface > called sqlexecd. When someone starts an ESQL, 4GL, or SQL program (or a > few others) then they will connect to the sqlexecd daemon and spawn an > sqlexec process. C-ISAM is a bunch of C libraries which enable you to write database routines using the index sequential access method Dude. It is not the same as SE and as such it has nothing to do with ESQL, 4GL or SQL, unless you cobble together some method for connecting these products to a C-ISAM database using some SE libraries or something. But that is only possible because SE uses ISAM files as well. AB ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com