[PLUG] Re: Needed: Translation from Geek to English

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Wil Cooley wrote:

> In this case, UDB is another name for DB2.  Exactly why it has two names, I
> do not know; maybe because it runs on everything from zOS to Windows.

Wil,

   I suspect not. From the source tree, in udb.spec (he supports Red Hat 7.3
and 9.0):

Summary: udb - UNIX Database with Transaction Replication
Name: udb
Version: 1.8
Release: 29
Group: Database/Daemons
Source0: http://www.anteil.com/downloads/udb-%{PACKAGE_VERSION}.tgz
Copyright: GPL
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/udb-root
Packager: Jim Capp <jcapp at anteil.com>
Requires: mysql, postgresql
Provides: libudb.so, libtbr.so

%description
udb provides replication of database transactions, operating system files,
and operating system commands to servers distributed in a wide-area-network. 
A database abstraction layer provides a common application interface
and uniform access to data in a variety of file formats and databases
including MySQL, Berkely db, xBase, fixed length, and UNIX character
delimited files.

API's are provided for C, PHP, and UNIX shell.

   Of course, now that I read this, my question is answered. Why would I read
the .spec file when there's a doc/ directory? I don't need to replicate
anything to servers distributed in a wide-area-network.

Thanks, all!

Rich

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