From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 19 02:24:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AADB1065672 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:24:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from btillman99@yahoo.com) Received: from web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.85.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29A5A8FC0A for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 49064 invoked by uid 60001); 19 Jun 2010 02:24:52 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1276914292; bh=X3dfBTgQwBy0zXvbpyrqN3OUO4OMhD+nF2Y1votr/HM=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=QvaExnnIgmwDFD/3BgyjeReow0V2jqVa7/3G69RKyXiGPmvBKdVZ6MJZyEg4UN8SpARNQ0ZqgkCgpij++2F4LVDqaRMsgXQNIKGehJBedw5jT3DL2DS4pG1jvf4KARA6ZZeidH6n0+pTE4yNvDcPlSWrygUmSVqatsyZGZwHUy8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=XvSbDbdqnttY/3t1L+PY4UrIPmkT2/G+zRoqO1dNHI6YE5me42QlCUOiLkz1F7/H3624ToZzrh89sW5kF6BnSJJrqMElAy0K+ZMGO7NGopNhT+BDYWg/4ClhJWI3Evapx9Eh4M9zbK3BJkfvSylMFA9DBG0sUtTgVEG81yB9Ao0=; Message-ID: <473909.48600.qm@web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: baKhzlwVM1lQIfvYK9W1AGFLd1EPznXJJhSmutIofu7RwCS SvMsn_E520OGjnub3c0GvvdiCYiZQ4K62.4T4JdZ_Oxa1_sjVAS2sZSA7PwW T7J3U5SbZzJkXw7WcBoinpmYTVHE4jcvLsynPCetwRy3ph78UeoYg.NSrlEL x4Fl_gjMDp5neQHVNeOLnImRaYwV5rVCiMyevKzabdH1ws938AOmy_PfO6pz oykbReQlrpkzuArW7BIMuEl3CLvELZxIvyeWH4Ced_rWcon13HcCnisSCnEp AgMKC5zcmMa44DOw- Received: from [98.242.233.74] by web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:24:52 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/11.1.4 YahooMailWebService/0.8.104.274457 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:24:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:57:58 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: PDF storage software recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:24:53 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:31:15 -0700 From: Charlie Kester 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