Thanks for the link and the info. I went there and, sure enough, there is a free windows version of Rekall as well as a 25 Pound (British Sterling?) version for Windows. The message board forum looks very useful. They have a news item about Novell certification/approval ....
I must say one intereting thing. When I downloaded the trial version from TheKompany, and asked it to browse a test file in PGSql which I loaded with 250,000 rows, it started to read them, and read for a long long time (as MSAccess does), but the seemed to get stuck, whereas MSAccess is able to browse the entire file. I must experiment more with the demo version from theKompany, and also with this free version from the site you gave me.
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Quoth Typing80wpm@aol.com:
> I just downloaded the windows demo for Rekall, which is an MSAccess
> like product (loosely speaking) with native drivers for postgresql
> and some other engines (plus odbc for yet others). I was a bit
> confused on certain things so I emailed my questions, and the
> president of the company replied.
>
> It wasnt clear what product I should purchase for windows, and he
> said that the basic $60 rekall gives you both windows and linux
> versions.
>
> I was also unclear about how long the demo remains active (30 days,
> 10 days?) but he explained that the demo never expires, remains
> active indefinitely, but logs off ever 20 minutes. It unzipped and
> installed effortlessly on my part. And it was very simple to tell
> it to look at a postgresql database. It uses python as a scripting
> language.
>
> I havent done a lot with it yet, but I think I am going to like it a
> lot.
It is worth noting that the authors of Rekall are quite separate from
"theKompany."
Before you consider paying TheKompany for licenses, you might want to
take a peek at the authors' web site...
<http://totalrekall.co.uk/>
And pay particular attention to the FAQ, especially the part where
theKompany is mentioned...
<http://totalrekall.co.uk/modules.php?name=FAQ>
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