Re: data entry - Mailing list pgsql-novice

I don't think the "run-time only MS Access" thing is right.  I'm pretty sure
you still need Access to run an MDE file.  Converting to an MDE file just
prevents users from modifying the database.

What is Ardent's UniVerse, anyway?

David Boerwinkle
-----Original Message-----
From: WOLF, PATRICK <patrick.wolf@Aerojet.com>
To: 'Kevin Berrien' <kberrien@javanet.com>
Cc: 'pgsql-novice@postgresql.org' <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 3:33 PM
Subject: RE: [NOVICE] data entry


>Is the problem with license that the developer doesn't want to pay the
>license?  If I remember correctly you can "compile" the MS Access
>application into an MDE file and then distribute that file with the free,
>run-time only MS Access.  Is that right?  I've not tried it because all of
>my applications run on systems here at work and we have a site license to
MS
>Office Pro 97 which includes Access.
>
>Pat
>
>Patrick C. Wolf
>Test Manager
>Aerojet
>Socorro Plant
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Berrien [mailto:kberrien@javanet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 10:15 PM
> To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [NOVICE] data entry
>
> This is what I've been doing with a personal project at
>home.  Since I do a
> lot of development in Access but wanted to give PostgreSQL a
>try.  The big
> problem with using Access is paying for the license.
>
> How about a good BASIC & PostgreSQL combination to give you
>something along
> the lines of Ardent's UniVerse?  Anyone?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-novice-owner@hub.org
>[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner@hub.org]On
> Behalf Of WOLF, PATRICK
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 2:03 PM
> To: 'deval'; pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [NOVICE] data entry
>
>
> I've got several applications where I use a PostgreSQL
>database running on a
> Linux server with a MS Access front end application running
>on the
> individual PCs.  It was pretty painless to build, although
>knowing something
> about Access would have been nice, and it provides a nice
>user interface for
> the individuals that enter the data.  Then I have Perl CGI
>scripts written
> on the server to provide read only reports to the web site.
>
> Pat
>
>
> Patrick C. Wolf
> Test Manager
> Aerojet
> Socorro Plant
>