Thread: Re: Basix for Data General / Basix for Sco Unix

Chris Browne wrote:
> "Kuywan" <Kuywan@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>>I have a Data General server with Basix Program and i would like
>>change for the Sco Unix server. I would like use my Basix Program on
>>Sco Unix, but i can't find the program for run Basix on Sco Unix (or
>>Linux, or any Unix).  Thank you for help!.
>
>
> And could you frame this as a question about PostgreSQL, maybehaps?
>
> This is a mailing list for discussion of the PostgreSQL
> object/relational database; I can't say that I'm familiar with a
> "Basix" system running on _any_ platform, and that is certainly not
> something I'd expect people around this list to be much aware of.

To Kuywan:

What is "Basix" - didn't DG at one time make a PICK system (?) - are you
sure that you are referring to a PICK Basic code? If this is what you
are referring to, then look into the keywords Pick, D3, UniVerse, and
multivalue.

Also:

http://www.rainingdata.com/
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/u2/universe/  (this looks like the
old UniVerse/Pick system - but not sure)

Hope this helps...

Andrew L. Ayers
Phoenix, Arizona

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Andrew Ayers <aayers@eldocomp.com> wrote:
>
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>
> What is "Basix" - didn't DG at one time make a PICK system (?) -

There was a Pick operating system.  Still is, actually.  It had nothing
to do with Data General.  "Basix," I don't recall.

>                                                                  are you
> sure that you are referring to a PICK Basic code? If this is what you
> are referring to, then look into the keywords Pick, D3, UniVerse, and
> multivalue.

UniVerse is a dbm system that was derived from the Pick operating
system, IIRC.  I actually was nearly a UniVerse DBA.  Until the company
for which I worked at the time ran out of money before finishing the
deployment of their new ERP system.  Took classes at a place called
JES.

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jseymour@LinxNet.com (Jim Seymour) writes:

> Andrew Ayers <aayers@eldocomp.com> wrote:
> >
> > What is "Basix" - didn't DG at one time make a PICK system (?) -


Perhaps he means this?

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/basix/

\Abstract
An interpreter for the \basic\ language is developed entirely in \TeX.
The interpreter presents techniques of scanning and parsing that are
useful in many contexts where data not containing formatting
directives are to be formatted by \TeX.  \TeX's expansion rules are
exploited to provide a macro that reads in the rest of the input file
as arguments and which never stops expanding.
\endAbstract


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