RE: Anyone familiar with Excalibur?

Excalibur search engine might be also used as a stand-alone server application. May be, these files belong to that engine... Though, I don't believe that any accounting system can be based on Excalibur 'neural network' fuzzy logic... -Alexey > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Leffler [mailto:jleffler@earthlink.net] > > Grubber wrote: > > > Google turns up the occasional reference to Excalibur here, so hopefully > > someone can give me a clue. > > > > I got called in to try and salvage the raw data from an accounting system > > supposedly running Excalibur on a dying HP9000. It's all historical info > > and reports are used infrequently. The accountants telnet in to run canned > > reports. The system was acquired as a result of a merger and the resident > > techs have no clue beyond knowing how to boot it up. I spent a little time > > on it and found apparent data in files with suffix .30, but hit a wall past > > that shred of info. There was some legible data in the .30 files, but most > > was unreadable, so I can't just parse it out. > > > > Now you know as much as anyone. > > > > If anyone is familiar with this beast, can you give me a basic rundown on > > how these things are configured or point me towards the location of some > > documentation? Even better, if you could give me a clue on how to go about > > exporting/migrating, I will think warm thoughts about you all week. > > > The Excalibur text search datablade that is occasionally mentioned in > comp.databases.informix is unrelated to any accounting system using > the same name. The Excalibur datablade does not use external files > with the ".30" suffix, AFAIK - indeed, I can't think of any Informix > product that uses that extension. So, unless someone happens to have > used an Excalibur accounting package as well as Informix databases, I > regret to say that it is unlikely you'll get much help from this news > group. It was worth a try - but don't raise your hopes too far. > > > -- > Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> > Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com > Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ sending to informix-list

You may want to search for retrieval ware now; ifaik it got renamed. Superboer. Alexey Sonkin <alexeis@grandvirtual.com> wrote in message news:<1100731128.0Vmu8s5WVRfY7VJysmRvVQ@teranews>... > Excalibur search engine might be also used as a stand-alone > server application. May be, these files belong to that engine... > > Though, I don't believe that any accounting system can > be based on Excalibur 'neural network' fuzzy logic... > > -Alexey > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jonathan Leffler [mailto:jleffler@earthlink.net] > > > > Grubber wrote: > > > > > Google turns up the occasional reference to Excalibur here, so hopefully > > > someone can give me a clue. > > > > > > I got called in to try and salvage the raw data from an accounting > system > > > supposedly running Excalibur on a dying HP9000. It's all historical > info > > > and reports are used infrequently. The accountants telnet in to run > canned > > > reports. The system was acquired as a result of a merger and the > resident > > > techs have no clue beyond knowing how to boot it up. I spent a little > time > > > on it and found apparent data in files with suffix .30, but hit a wall > past > > > that shred of info. There was some legible data in the .30 files, but > most > > > was unreadable, so I can't just parse it out. > > > > > > Now you know as much as anyone. > > > > > > If anyone is familiar with this beast, can you give me a basic rundown > on > > > how these things are configured or point me towards the location of some > > > documentation? Even better, if you could give me a clue on how to go > about > > > exporting/migrating, I will think warm thoughts about you all week. > > > > > > The Excalibur text search datablade that is occasionally mentioned in > > comp.databases.informix is unrelated to any accounting system using > > the same name. The Excalibur datablade does not use external files > > with the ".30" suffix, AFAIK - indeed, I can't think of any Informix > > product that uses that extension. So, unless someone happens to have > > used an Excalibur accounting package as well as Informix databases, I > > regret to say that it is unlikely you'll get much help from this news > > group. It was worth a try - but don't raise your hopes too far. > > > > > > -- > > Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> > > Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com > > Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ > sending to informix-list