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Onyx 2.39 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Apr 15 12:22:35 1995
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 17:48:31 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: kraehe@bakunin.north.de (Michael Koehne)
Subject: Onyx 2.39 released
Keywords: database, sql, 4gl, ingres, postgres, minerva
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Welcome to Onyx 2.38 a copylefted sql/4gl
News in 2.39
* Scrollable lists inside masks. Ugly patch maybe
full of bugs but works with the fakt.4gl example.
I hope this will be the last feature adding patch
for Onyx 2. and Onyx 3. will be released soon.
Abstract
* Onyx is my private SQL/4GL game, donated to all folks,
freaks and gurus who like the idea of copyleft ;-)
I started to write it because the department of environment
in Bremen had several DOS boxes with Informix, crashing
frequently, so we decided to use Linux as clients when IP
became stable with 0.99p6.
* Onyx has its own transaction manager, which is built by an
object oriented predicative parser generator. Just another
game but very useful as this funny thing also produces
header files and manual pages.
So it's posible to parse what I call "crippled SQL" and
produce commands for other engines like University Ingres or
even GNU awk.
If you have a real SQL engine, you'll use their "real" SQL
of course and not my crippled one ;-)
* The main goal of the transaction manager is to implement a
protocol for connecting applications to a database in a
vendor independent way. Ingres89, Postgres, Yard, GAWK,
Shql and Minerva are now supported, others are planned.
So any application capable of connecting to port is able to
use my protocol which is documented in a RFC-like style.
* Onyx has a 4GL which is more a shell, but unlike other shells
knows about tables, transactions, masks and menus.
Onyx is designed by the Model-View-Controller paradigm,
so tables are the model, masks are the views and transactions
are the controllers which can be bound to an input field,
a menu, function keys or the change of the current record
in a cursor.
* Unlike other 4GL's Onyx doesn't hide the system, so it's
easy to export or import from a pipe and use the many tools
*nix has. E.g., I'm using a pipe to "gawk | groff | lpr" to
print my bills, or a pipe from "tar | gawk" to manage my
tapes.
* Copyleft is a chance that good programmers won't need to
work for a big company, or become a slave of their
distribution channels.
Linux and Onyx is a chance for database application
programmers to sell their solutions and support to the
customers without the need to pay a lot to the big companies
for using their tools, and listen for hours to "please hold
the line" if they need support.
News in 2.38
* Some corrections on Yard paths variables
* forcing sql.sql_close() in gsqld.C for supressing "Read failed"
in Minerva.
* Added target/`uname -n` directory support for compiling several
sites from one source tree
News in 2.37
* Fixed non blocking in twin/term.c just an other fucking time.
* Splitted source/Makefile that Makeall use a include which will be
produced by source/Makefile, also using $EDITOR and $MAKE
now if defined (just for Emacs freaks and FreeBSD ;-)
* newer FreeBSD patches from Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de>
* happy xmas
* started application/tcl/sqlshell
How to get it
V32bis: bakunin.north.de +49 421 870532
ftp: wowbagger.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de pub/unix/database
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For further information take a look in the doc directory,
be warned some docs are produced while compiling.
If you really want to use it send mail to
<kraehe@bakunin.north.de>
If you'd like to donate beer or postcards, send them to :
Kraehe
Koehlersweg / Nordbruch Exil
28215 Free Republic Weidedamm III
Bremen/Germany
If you'd like to donate money, send it to :
Michael Koehne
Sparkasse Bremen
Bankleitzahl : 290 501 01
Konto : 3189 3019
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