8 Sep
2015
8 Sep
'15
10:44 a.m.
My only other thought is maybe a DEC-based database like DATATRIEVE
might have a TCP/IP connection I might be able to poke with a modern
language to extract data from? I am not sure though. I only work in a
very narrow field myself with modern systems so I'm not an expert, I
just like the idea of attacking this, but I might be overthinking it a
bit ;)
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Mark Benson
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/09/2015 00:57, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Yeah, that should be doable.
Doesn't even need to be a database, just an agreed markup structure and
files..
Then just convert them to whatever format you want.
Using flat files makes it less easy to search and query the data, and also
potentially makes the data structure less flexible for future applications,
but it is easier to host and transport. Kind of. But please, no XML. It
makes my ears bleed.
I'd love to do a Python/Django/PostgreSQL project with a set of output
scripts but I have no Django-friendly hosting that could be reliably
internet-facing available (only LAMP and frankly I'm starting to dislike PHP
more and more). A
I tried goofing with MediaWiki a while back but found it to be... well not
to my taste. It's a useful tool but it's not the right one for this IMHO, I
think outputting Wiki data to files for various OSs might be a bit of a
bear.
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