OT: AOL 8.0

[Walter Vaughan]

Kenneth Brody wrote:

> Quoting Transpower <transpower at aol.com>:
<snip re phpBB type forum>
> Are those forums available while offline?

Removing the a single point of failure issue is probably the larger 
issue. Perhaps some sort of automated CVS/rsync that would allow keeping 
a local copy of the database would be a good idea at least for me. I for 
one have every email of this group locally searchable going back for 
9-1/2 years using Netscape email tools[1].

Running a forum on a Rapid Application Development and Database system 
on a php & MySQL based system is kinda like asking people to build their 
own casket.

However nothing is stopping anyone from gating mail sent from 
filepro-list@ to a web based bulletin board and interfacing this list.

As they say in open source... don't like the way it works, you are 
welcome to write it yourself...

--
Walter
[1] from the archives on 11/29/95....

[...]
We have completed the API for filePro and are offering it for $995 per
workstation or server.  The API is read and write and can be used from
all commercially available visual programming languages that support API
declarations and calls.  Please provide your phone and FAX number
and we will provide information to you immediately.

If anyone would like more information please call us at:
	Empire Data Group, Inc.
	Attn: Steven Smead
[...]


...postscript...
About three months later I got involved in writing cgi-bin code in perl 
to read/write filepro, and while I bought a copy of fpAPI, we never 
deployed any production work written with it.
And when I got time again to look at the API, it didn't support 4.5 
style indexes... :(

wdv