Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> pondered:
 
 
>DBDRIVER is an obscure little database utility supplied by HP.  It is quite
>user-indifferent but allows one to access a database and perform most all
>intrinsics on the database. Whilst it is NOT to be used for reports and
>regular access (I was being facetious but I also used DISKED5 and now DEBUG
>to look at my files, but that is another story), it is VERY useful in
>debugging problems in the database, or trying out calls on the database.  It
>can also be used to dump database sectors to the screen or the printer, this
>includes the labels as well.
>
>The commands are one letter are sometimes not intuitively obvious.  I am not
>sure if we want to list them here, suffice it to say that a list of the
>commands (at that time) is found in the IMAGE Handbook published circa 1984.
 
 
I'm amazed to see the unkind remarks that everyone (including my kind
friend Denys) throw at poor-old-dear DBDRIVER.
 
What's wrong with being "user-indifferent"?  Everyone wants Unix!
 
What's wrong with the fact that "The commands are one letter are sometimes
not intuitively obvious"?  Everyone wants Unix!
 
 
Come on, people!  Be consistent :-)   Everybody should not only love
DBDRIVER but use it for production work.  Denys has shown (in a
somewhat-cowardly and child-like way, but still way ahead of the pack) that
he has put his toes into the DBDRIVER water.  As is the case with a Turing
machine (which can be programmed to do ANY computing task, albeit a bit
slowly and not so elegantly), it is theoretically possible to have EVERY
ONE of your hundreds of users pounding away at DBDRIVER commands to get
your company's daily databaswe-oriented work done.
 
cultr   (No, no, no,...  This doesn't stand for "culture"... it stands for
"see you later"...   But then, again, ambiguity adds spice to an otherwise
boring and predictable life...  You would NOT like boredom and
predictability for your mission-critical business processes, would you?)
 
 
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