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157 notes across 18 conferences

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BANZAI::HIGGS245Mon Apr 28 1986Mon Nov 27 1989Festooned with DMLs
CLYPPR::HIGGS9Wed Mar 08 1989Wed Dec 20 1989Omnia DBS in tres partes divisa est
LACKEY::HIGGS305Wed Jan 27 1988Thu May 02 1991SQL is a camel in disguise
32370::HIGGS1Mon Apr 04 1988Mon Apr 04 1988Festooned with DMLs
32371::HIGGS2Wed Mar 02 1988Mon Apr 11 1988Festooned with DMLs
CREDIT::HIGGS33Wed Sep 09 1987Fri Feb 19 1988Festooned with DMLs
DEBIT::HIGGS19Wed Sep 02 1987Mon Jan 25 1988Festooned with DMLs

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turris::vaxc48VAX C Notes
orarep::nomahs::rdb_3037VAX Rdb/VMS
orarep::nomahs::sql18SQL notes
clusta::acms9ACMS comments and questions
noted::ibmpc-8x9Current IBM PC conference is NOTED::IBMPC-93
orarep::nomahs::dsri8DSRI Discussions
turris::c_plus_plus6C++
turris::porting_to_ultrix6Porting Software to Ultrix
turris::lisp3LISP
gantry::turbo3Turbo Pascal
ulysse::rdb_vms_competition2DEC Rdb against the World
galvia::decintact2DECintactECintact Conference
turris::debug1DEBUG
thrust::rdbeln1Rdb/ELN Notes
7.286::osf_archive1Open Software Foundation -- the Organization
noted::v2_rainbow1Volume 2 of the Rainbow Notesfile
cookie::dbs_ui_forum1Database System User Interface Forum
orarep::nomahs::sql_services1SQL/Services Forum

Conference clusta::acms (ACMS comments and questions)

9 posts
TOPIC 259.0 Decision Time!
259.1Thu May 07 1987 03:27 One (biased) opinion 56 lines
259.6Fri May 08 1987 14:34 More ... 44 lines
TOPIC 270.0 Several Rdb-databases in same ACMS-application ?
270.1Tue May 26 1987 13:04 Try the RDB NOTES file 20 lines
TOPIC 480.0 Load on the comms link?
480.10Mon Jun 13 1988 14:09 No 19 lines
TOPIC 496.0 MESSAGE 01388022 WITH RDB RECOVERY (ACMS V3)
496.3Wed Jun 15 1988 14:17 Use the default DB handle 18 lines
TOPIC 519.0 Examples based on SQL
519.6Wed Jul 27 1988 15:41 22 lines
TOPIC 531.0 ACMS + lock manager = Special Server ?
531.8Tue Aug 02 1988 15:55 Are you sure ? 44 lines
TOPIC 626.0 acms/rdb vs oracle
626.1Thu Oct 27 1988 13:36 Suggestion and warnings 17 lines
TOPIC 704.0 Update both Rdb and RMS in 1 task
704.4Wed Feb 01 1989 12:26 46 lines

Conference noted::ibmpc-8x (Current IBM PC conference is NOTED::IBMPC-93)

9 posts
TOPIC 568.0 X-Windows on PCs ?
568.3Wed Mar 18 1987 22:18 Cheap, too ? 3 lines
TOPIC 614.0 PCjr almost= PC?
614.3Fri Apr 10 1987 13:36 Clones are better value 42 lines
TOPIC 616.0 Help - CLIPPER users!
616.2Fri Apr 10 1987 14:00 Here's how 20 lines
TOPIC 618.0 NEED PCBLUE106 !!! (Or, PC-TALK III for PCjr).
618.10Mon Apr 13 1987 16:24 PC Connections advertizing 10 lines
TOPIC 621.0
621.5Mon Apr 13 1987 16:30 Motors and transients 12 lines
TOPIC 661.0 AT's vs. uVAX's
661.1Tue May 05 1987 13:10 VAXC conference ? 3 lines
TOPIC 693.0 Turbo C is out!
693.30Tue Feb 09 1988 20:14 Do you REALLY need listings ? 19 lines
693.31Tue Feb 09 1988 20:19 Listing generator program 103 lines
TOPIC 767.0 8250 spec wanted
767.6Wed Jun 24 1987 13:58 More details 14 lines

Conference orarep::nomahs::sql (SQL notes)

18 posts
TOPIC 109.0 RDO - SQL differences?
109.19Wed Sep 14 1988 16:00 Go SQL 19 lines
TOPIC 136.0 BASIC vs. PL/I
136.5Wed Mar 29 1989 13:53 9 lines
TOPIC 202.0 wish list
202.4Wed Sep 14 1988 15:49 VAXset generally and VAX DEBUG 5 lines
202.6Wed Sep 14 1988 22:04 Very little, actually. 14 lines
TOPIC 220.0 Customers first look at SQL...
220.4Tue Sep 27 1988 14:44 It'll be in there sometime, I'm sure 19 lines
TOPIC 225.0 Schema Version control
225.2Mon Oct 10 1988 13:43 Rdb/VMS version or metadata version ? 8 lines
TOPIC 226.0 What is Equiv of FIRST x in RDO
226.2Mon Oct 10 1988 13:45 Not only VAX SQL... 5 lines
TOPIC 243.0 SQLPRE name verification conflicts with host language
243.1Mon Oct 24 1988 13:34 C, too 10 lines
TOPIC 254.0 Usage Study - Requests your help on DSRI usage!
254.1Tue Nov 08 1988 15:14 Specifics 7 lines
TOPIC 282.0 Performance of SQL
282.2Mon Dec 12 1988 12:50 Go SQL ! 6 lines
TOPIC 302.0 USING SYMBOILC IDs for SQLCODE
302.2Mon Jan 09 1989 20:42 Here's how 28 lines
TOPIC 331.0 EXEC SQL INCLUDE FROM DICTIONARY ... and C
331.8Thu Mar 02 1989 17:06 24 lines
TOPIC359.0Fri Mar 10 1989 13:45 OODBMS paper 11 lines
TOPIC 363.0 Indicator variable usage
363.2Tue Mar 14 1989 14:17 5 lines
TOPIC 388.0 DYNAMIC SQL - NUMHVSNOT
388.1Wed Mar 29 1989 13:59 12 lines
TOPIC 398.0 Why does ORDER BY make a cursor read-only?
398.4Fri Apr 07 1989 17:46 10 lines
TOPIC 407.0 SQL commands
407.2Fri Apr 07 1989 17:36 Well kind of, but not really... 44 lines
TOPIC 725.0 Get next after a SELECT?
725.6Sun Nov 26 1989 21:41 Relational databases are not like indexed sequentrntial files 63 lines

Conference turris::c_plus_plus (C++)

6 posts
TOPIC 17.0 PATCH hack in OASYS C++ ?
17.14Mon Apr 18 1988 21:55 6 lines
TOPIC 22.0 $99 C++ compiler
22.15Wed Sep 07 1988 02:14 History 22 lines
22.16Wed Sep 07 1988 02:21 Book details 19 lines
TOPIC52.0Tue Nov 15 1988 12:31 Update on Oregon C++ compiler on VMS 17 lines
TOPIC65.0Wed Jan 11 1989 13:58 Wiener and Pinson OO Design/C++ seminar 134 lines
TOPIC 90.0 Using SOCKETS
90.2Tue Mar 14 1989 14:23 Sockets ==> UNIX-like 12 lines

Conference turris::vaxc (VAX C Notes)

48 posts
TOPIC 190.0 ?Date & Time cnv routines?
190.7Wed Feb 22 1989 21:01 mktime fills it in 29 lines
TOPIC 337.0 type of errno?
337.15Tue Dec 29 1987 16:07 30 lines
TOPIC 706.0 The weak, the strong and the wimpy.
706.4Tue Mar 17 1987 19:27 One solution 30 lines
TOPIC 718.0 Logical Operators With #ifdefs?
718.6Tue Mar 24 1987 16:16 #if should do it, too 30 lines
TOPIC 720.0 task to task
720.1Tue Mar 24 1987 16:20 DECnet ? 5 lines
TOPIC 731.0 Quadword <--> string conversions????
731.4Tue Mar 31 1987 16:06 LIB$CVT_DX_DX should do it, but apparently won't 8 lines
TOPIC 732.0 VMS<->Ultrix compatability?
732.3Wed Apr 01 1987 14:20 Dollar signs in identifiers 16 lines
732.7Fri Apr 03 1987 15:08 'entry' is (sometimes) a keyword 11 lines
TOPIC 765.0 VAX C/Ultrix vs VAX C/VMS
765.2Tue Apr 21 1987 16:13 Paging/swapping differences might make a difference 5 lines
TOPIC 779.0 How to use VAR ARGS?
779.3Thu May 07 1987 04:49 Why not user SYS$PUTMSG ? 3 lines
779.8Mon May 11 1987 17:37 $PUTMSG does allow you to output elsewhere 12 lines
779.10Tue May 12 1987 14:16 What's the problem 26 lines
TOPIC790.0Mon May 18 1987 19:45 VAX C strings and VMS DEBUG 36 lines
790.3Tue May 19 1987 16:17 Not the problem 21 lines
790.13Tue May 26 1987 14:06 Cross-product dependencies 6 lines
TOPIC 792.0 I thought "&" meant "address of"
792.2Tue May 19 1987 21:20 superfluous & operators 29 lines
TOPIC 802.0 C/Pascal memory freeing
802.6Thu Jun 04 1987 14:10 Try the RTL 'string allocation' routines 9 lines
TOPIC 803.0 Reference Man documentation error
803.3Wed Jun 03 1987 21:46 Not quite fixed... 23 lines
TOPIC 834.0 fseek problems when seeking from end of file
834.2Fri Jun 26 1987 14:46 SIGNED long offset 36 lines
TOPIC 860.0 TASK TO TASK COMMUNICATION
860.2Wed Jul 29 1987 21:37 That was for ULTRIX or MS-DOS 15 lines
860.4Thu Jul 30 1987 14:04 Engage brain first... 5 lines
TOPIC 900.0 need help with RDB$INTERPRET
900.3Mon Aug 17 1987 14:02 Another example 3 lines
TOPIC 1016.0 ungetc() and fscanf() aren't friends.
1016.28Mon Apr 11 1988 13:47 Other products sometimes impose restrictions, too 16 lines
TOPIC 1071.0 fopen(input_from_terminal, "r");
1071.5Mon Dec 07 1987 15:31 Duzitdo what you meant ? 24 lines
TOPIC 1213.0 C coding conventions
1213.6Tue Feb 23 1988 12:44 ANSI came down on the side of grouping 12 lines
TOPIC 1265.0 Sincerely Desparate
1265.2Mon Mar 14 1988 13:05 Other vendor possibilitites 8 lines
TOPIC 1266.0 Problem with fflush
1266.2Mon Mar 14 1988 20:27 A small nit... 9 lines
TOPIC 1267.0 ** question
1267.3Mon Mar 14 1988 20:05 Does this help ? 25 lines
TOPIC1284.0Tue Mar 22 1988 12:54 The second coming... 15 lines
TOPIC 1325.0 Skills to write a compiler
1325.8Tue Apr 19 1988 21:10 It's available on VMS, too 37 lines
TOPIC 1350.0 Bug with VOID * arithmetic?
1350.3Fri Apr 22 1988 21:46 What operations should be allowed on a void * ? 23 lines
TOPIC 1357.0 machine code incomplete V2.3
1357.4Mon Apr 25 1988 16:48 I agree 7 lines
TOPIC 1406.0 calloc struct array
1406.1Tue May 24 1988 13:37 Several fixes 40 lines
1406.4Wed May 25 1988 21:00 45 lines
TOPIC 1409.0 protophobia prophylaxis
1409.2Wed May 25 1988 21:22 Count me in on that, too... 7 lines
TOPIC 1411.0 LIB$SYS_TRNLOG use
1411.3Wed May 25 1988 21:35 Here is some code that works... 157 lines
TOPIC 1423.0 Using a Macro Program Section
1423.3Tue Jun 07 1988 13:55 Pointers 13 lines
TOPIC 1600.0 Programs to help with complex declarations
1600.8Mon Sep 12 1988 20:16 17 lines
TOPIC 1640.0 get rid of the separate D/G float RTLs
1640.9Tue Oct 04 1988 12:52 Environmental changes ? 4 lines
TOPIC 1649.0 Extern variable needs /include for resolution
1649.1Tue Oct 04 1988 13:14 PSECTs not global symbols 54 lines
TOPIC 1658.0 B-tree sort
1658.4Thu Oct 13 1988 18:09 some references 29 lines
TOPIC 1667.0 C doc set order numbers
1667.2Mon Oct 17 1988 14:08 Second Edition 1 lines
TOPIC 1674.0 C vs. Pascal: decisions, decisions
1674.7Wed Oct 19 1988 17:00 Portability will loom... 18 lines
TOPIC 1681.0 rtl and struct allocation
1681.2Fri Oct 21 1988 18:55 Was this what you meant ? 16 lines
TOPIC 1847.0 auto-aggregate initialization
1847.2Wed Jan 18 1989 16:08 auto 3 lines
TOPIC 1858.0 Extracting Logicals
1858.2Mon Jan 23 1989 18:02 Here's a simpler interface 167 lines
TOPIC 1945.0 BUILDIT - RDML
1945.8Tue Mar 14 1989 18:11 Small clarification 10 lines
1945.9Tue Mar 14 1989 18:18 17 lines

Conference galvia::decintact (DECintactECintact Conference)

2 posts
TOPIC 82.0 File size/backup?
82.9Mon Sep 12 1988 19:58 13 lines
TOPIC 111.0 Debit Credit Benchmark Document
111.1Mon Oct 24 1988 13:39 DBS Engineering 6 lines

Conference gantry::turbo (Turbo Pascal)

3 posts
TOPIC 331.0 Moving Turbo Pascal programs to VAX/VMS
331.4Fri Apr 10 1987 14:30 One interesting possibility... 28 lines
TOPIC 461.0 Help on mouse routines
461.3Wed Jan 18 1989 15:38 Where is it ? 11 lines
461.8Mon Jan 23 1989 17:44 gottit 5 lines

Conference 7.286::osf_archive (Open Software Foundation -- the Organization)

1 posts
TOPIC 22.0 DEC's added value
22.9Mon Jun 13 1988 15:04 Specious argument 63 lines

Conference orarep::nomahs::dsri (DSRI Discussions)

8 posts
TOPIC38.0Thu May 07 1987 01:49 Dates in DSRI 62 lines
38.1Thu May 07 1987 01:57 Jim's response 81 lines
38.2Thu May 07 1987 02:06 17 lines
38.3Thu May 07 1987 02:07 Jim's response 37 lines
TOPIC 45.0 Describe DSRI for Me
45.1Tue Jun 30 1987 12:03 DSRI Handbook 17 lines
TOPIC 52.0 What's in a name
52.7Thu Oct 22 1987 10:20 7-bit vs 8-bit characters ? 8 lines
TOPIC 65.0 BYTE, PACKED DECIMAL support
65.12Fri Mar 11 1988 11:24 Scaled integers 11 lines
TOPIC 104.0 Know of any DSRI material?
104.1Thu Apr 06 1989 12:26 Take a look at the output of RDML 68 lines

Conference orarep::nomahs::sql_services (SQL/Services Forum)

1 posts
TOPIC 14.0 Tell me more about the SERVER
14.2Mon Oct 24 1988 14:06 Don't forget security 13 lines

Conference thrust::rdbeln (Rdb/ELN Notes)

1 posts
TOPIC 9.0 Support for Ada by RDB/ELN
9.1Thu Jun 25 1987 14:42 Ada at top of list 14 lines

Conference turris::debug (DEBUG)

1 posts
TOPIC303.0Tue May 26 1987 14:15 DEBUGging VAX C char arrays 13 lines

Conference turris::lisp (LISP)

3 posts
TOPIC 248.0 Wanted: VMS XLISP
248.8Thu Apr 07 1988 15:20 XLISP V2.0 available 58 lines
TOPIC 702.0 Changing message format
702.4Thu Apr 14 1988 18:48 That's exactly what SYS$GETMSG does 4 lines
TOPIC 743.0 LISP editor new user complaint
743.4Mon Apr 04 1988 15:59 Being constructive (at least trying...) 34 lines

Conference turris::porting_to_ultrix (Porting Software to Ultrix)

6 posts
TOPIC 38.0 GKS for ULTRIX - When ?
38.1Fri Jan 09 1987 20:36 It's been around for some time 10 lines
TOPIC 42.0 Moving files from Ultrix-->VMS
42.1Tue Apr 21 1987 15:33 Possibilities 30 lines
42.3Wed Apr 22 1987 14:37 Wild cards are a pain, though 6 lines
TOPIC 44.0 Missing Library Routines????
44.1Mon May 04 1987 14:23 Try the latest version of VAX C 25 lines
TOPIC 60.0 BLISS, C, Rdb ???
60.8Fri Oct 09 1987 16:50 History 16 lines
TOPIC 79.0 $GETMSG/$FAO/$PUTMSG
79.2Thu Feb 18 1988 11:50 Other considerations 11 lines

Conference noted::v2_rainbow (Volume 2 of the Rainbow Notesfile)

1 posts
TOPIC 1063.0 What to order for more memory?!?
1063.10Wed Feb 10 1988 14:52 More details needed on how to upgrade memory 18 lines

Conference cookie::dbs_ui_forum (Database System User Interface Forum)

1 posts
TOPIC 7.0 Should we consider Trellis? From Bruce Stoller's message
7.3Mon Mar 20 1989 16:49 Let's put this issue to rest... 111 lines

Conference orarep::nomahs::rdb_30 (VAX Rdb/VMS)

37 posts
TOPIC 61.0 REQ-WRONG-DB error on multi database handles
61.6Wed Sep 07 1988 02:51 Divided by a common? language... 6 lines
61.13Wed Sep 07 1988 20:48 GLOBAL/EXTERNAL and other stuff 52 lines
61.14Wed Sep 07 1988 20:54 9 lines
TOPIC 170.0 Benchmarking using Rdb
170.15Fri Nov 18 1988 17:00 Good, but incomplete 11 lines
TOPIC 335.0 Rdb3,VMS5 --> Rdb2.3,VMS4.7
335.8Fri Oct 21 1988 13:01 10 lines
335.12Mon Oct 24 1988 13:24 Stop using RDBPASCAL 9 lines
TOPIC 339.0 Why multiple binds?
339.7Fri Oct 21 1988 16:41 READY ? 3 lines
TOPIC 365.0 Question bout Def Rel
365.3Tue Nov 08 1988 15:08 The onward surge of SQL... 7 lines
TOPIC 381.0 Need Kit for RDB Rev. 2.3
381.1Thu Oct 27 1988 13:19 Will it work with V3 ? 4 lines
TOPIC 391.0 Saving crossed relations?
391.6Tue Nov 01 1988 14:10 Normalization is sometimes overdone 22 lines
TOPIC 395.0 shareable image with RDB and FORTRAN ?
395.4Tue Nov 01 1988 13:37 Correction 13 lines
TOPIC 401.0 Finding Date Values which are Missing
401.1Tue Nov 01 1988 13:59 8 lines
TOPIC 427.0 Usage Study - Requests your help on DSRI usage!
427.2Tue Nov 08 1988 15:05 Specifics 7 lines
TOPIC 446.0 bug related to defining a new field
446.8Thu Nov 10 1988 17:36 It was in DATAMATION 5 lines
TOPIC 487.0 Rdb/ULTRIX/POSIX compliant
487.1Fri Nov 18 1988 16:54 What's the scope of the problem ? 20 lines
TOPIC 569.0 Rdb on Virtual disk?
569.3Wed Dec 07 1988 13:07 Implications of virtual disk ? 3 lines
TOPIC 571.0 EAR model DBs?
571.2Wed Dec 07 1988 15:16 ZIM is e/r 10 lines
TOPIC 573.0 ^C AST's and Rdb?
573.8Wed Dec 07 1988 13:19 Other approaches 13 lines
TOPIC 645.0 Another RDB date field question.
645.4Fri Feb 24 1989 13:41 Really a C problem 51 lines
TOPIC 795.0 IMPORT turns hash indices into sorted indices
795.5Fri Jan 27 1989 12:32 Minimize Paternalism ! 19 lines
TOPIC 818.0 START-STREAM: how to limit the time?
818.3Thu Feb 02 1989 12:16 RDB$CANCEL_REQUEST 15 lines
818.6Fri Feb 03 1989 16:38 READY and START_TRANSACTION overhead too ? 12 lines
TOPIC 925.0 %RDB-F-SYS_REQUEST Error
925.7Fri Feb 24 1989 13:46 Are you zeroing your request handles wantonly ? 8 lines
925.10Mon Feb 27 1989 13:39 and I thought I could spell 2 lines
TOPIC 932.0 Distributed DBMS ?
932.4Wed Feb 22 1989 11:48 We have more than the competition has, for the most part 25 lines
TOPIC 943.0 RDB/COBOL/CDO PROBLEM
943.4Fri Feb 24 1989 13:52 A rose by any other name... 9 lines
TOPIC 944.0 Pre-processor & Pre-compiler ?
944.3Fri Feb 24 1989 12:27 23 lines
TOPIC 951.0 Rdb access across 2 shareable images
951.2Fri Feb 24 1989 13:50 Manuals again ? 4 lines
951.6Mon Feb 27 1989 13:35 Could you elaborate on what they are missing ? 20 lines
TOPIC 968.0 CALL/TRANSACTION HANDLE ERROR
968.3Wed Mar 01 1989 12:56 Yes they do 9 lines
TOPIC 1014.0 RWROOT+TSNBLK stalls on R-O benchmark
1014.7Thu Mar 09 1989 12:57 INVOKE is not executable 25 lines
TOPIC 1026.0 multiple databases question
1026.3Thu Mar 09 1989 19:59 Handles, handles and mor ehandles 20 lines
1026.9Mon Mar 13 1989 13:35 14 lines
TOPIC 1027.0 Locking with DTR/Rdb still difficult 2 years later
1027.4Fri Mar 10 1989 13:08 14 lines
TOPIC1033.0Fri Mar 10 1989 13:44 OODBMS paper 11 lines
TOPIC 1090.0 Your input on name for new optimizer product
1090.10Tue Mar 28 1989 14:13 How many times can we enter ? 16 lines
TOPIC 1160.0 SMG-F-ILL on RMU/SHOW
1160.5Fri Apr 07 1989 16:48 9 lines

Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition (DEC Rdb against the World)

2 posts
TOPIC 120.0 INTELLECT support for TERADATA
120.7Sat Apr 23 1988 02:02 1 lines
TOPIC314.0Fri Mar 10 1989 19:44 OODBMS paper 11 lines

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