Re: What EXACTLY do I need to purchase and WHY?!?!

Posted in 1994

Kerry Sainsbury — Fri, 09 Sep 1994 21:30:49 +1200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <34ntst$96j@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, Andy_Mikesell@mail.amsinc.com ("Andy Mikesell") wrote: > > We are considering purchasing 4GL/GX to create an interface to our > database. The hardware is a Sun SPARC running Solaris 2.2 and SE 4.0. > > Subject: Re: What EXACTLY do I need to purchase and WHY?!?! I think you should tell us first! What do you want to *do*? 4GL/RDS is a programming language. You can write nice character-based applications with it. 4GL/GX will take those nice applications and try to make them look pretty on GUI X-Terminals. Mouseable. Clickable. Shadowed. > We have existing C programs that will need to return values to the > created interface. > > The question is *which products(s) do I need?* I have conflicting I suspect that if you've already written your application in C, then you probably want neither. Hi ho. --------------------------------------------------- Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz R&D Dude, Quanta Systems, Auckland, New Zealand ph. +64 9 377-4473 (work). +64 9 276-5546 (home) ---------------------------------------------------- The Informix FAQ lives at kcbbs.gen.nz: informix/*