Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:24:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PDF storage software recommendations? Message-ID: <473909.48600.qm@web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:31:15 -0700 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> Subject: Re: PDF storage software recommendations? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100618063115.GA57196@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii; format=3Dflowed On Thu 17 Jun 2010 at 19:57:03 PDT Polytropon wrote: > >Maybe my answer will sound "low level", but it works - REALLY works - >and works with mostly every kind of data. > >It's good to see someone recommending a true Unix-style solution.=A0 :) Here, here.=A0 I too love simple text files. With the speed of today's comp= uters it's not impractical to use text files. And something like you sugges= t with awk I think would work....except for one major thing. When building = a database like this you usually have to build an interface that normal use= rs will work with. And something that I could use versus something the othe= r people in the office could use are often worlds apart. I once wrote a pro= gram to do linear optimization for cutting metal parts from stock lengths. = For me it was a simple block of code about 30-40 lines as I recall. The oth= er guys in the warehouse saw it and told the boss they wanted it too. He th= en instructed me to expand it so the common users could work with it. Well = 2 months later and about another 400 lines of code to make it user friendly= we finally had something. So as I see it the interface for other "not so t= ech-savvy" users will be the trouble with this approach. But put me down for a vote on this method using simple text files and awk. =A0 We have a Windows based system at my current job which uses FileMaker Pro. = It's amazing what we can do with this and it's like having a gigantic elect= ronic filing cabinet. It's pricey and it took the IT guys some time to buil= d it but it does do some fantastic things in keeping tons of files organize= d, indexed and searchable. But I'd like to try my hand at building somethin= g with text files and awk.=0A=0A=0A
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