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README for SQLEdit for OPENSTEP
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Welcome to ICOS's latest version of SQLEdit - and now, it runs on WINDOWS NT and 95
with OPENSTEP from Apple (www.apple.com).
SQLEdit is a useful small application to support EOF developer. The background to
write such an app was the necessity to handle/modify the database contents via
DML (data manipulation language) statements that knowns the model identifiers
and hide the sometimes cryptical database object names.
FEATURES
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- within this app you can use model identifier for DML statements or database
object names in either DML or DDL statements
- any statements that the database knows about are allowed (dependent on the adaptor
of the loaded model)
- private command: 'describe <objectname>;' to get deep informations about model
or entities
- can execute a stament list loaded from file (batch manipulations) or single
statement
- print result sets to non postscript printers via GhostScript (ftp.cs.wisc.edu)
(tested with GS version 5.01, you need GSView too)
- don't need to type in any statement twice: go (by mouse/cursor) to the end of
that statement (it is behind the semicolon) and press <return> again
- and much more ...
TO DO
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- user defined transactions (at the point every command is a transaction that
was commited if it was successful or rolled back if it was not)
- save typed sql statements to file
- sorting of columns in addition of '... order by ...' clauses
- connect to a database without a given model
- any what you really need!
CONTACT INFO:
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EMAIL: rendto@icos.lol.li
TELE: +41 75 23766-17
FAX: +41 75 23766-34
SNAIL: ICOS AG
Fuerst-Franz-Joseph-Str. 73
FL-9490 Vaduz
PRICING:
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Free.
Be sure you downloaded the correct version for your hardware and operating system:
Operating System CPU architecture Download:
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Windows NT or Intel SQLEdit_1.05_WIN.tar.gz
Windows 95
NOTE:you must be running OPENSTEP 4.2 for Windows - 1-800-try-next):
Others will follow up if needed ... ;-))
INSTALLATION:
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Windows NT or 95:
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1. Unpack the software distribution
a. open a "Bourne Shell" window from OPENSTEP Enterprises folder
b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp
cd C:\temp
c. gunzip the distribution:
gunzip SQLEdit_1.05_WIN.tar.gz
d. untar the resulting uncompressed file:
tar xf SQLEdit_1.05_WIN.tar
2. Inside the newly created SQLEdit_1.05_WIN directory will be SQLEdit.app
a. move SQLEdit.app using File Manager to where you keep your apps
b. Drag the icon of SQLEdit.exe to a Program Manager folder for easy
launch
c. Notify your system of the SQLEdit File types (only if you want
to open '.eomodel', '.eomodeld' and '.sql' bundles/files by double
clicking with "SQLEdit.app"!):
1. change directory to where SQLEdit.app resides, in this
example, we'll say that SQLEdit.app is in C:\LocalApps
cd C:\LocalApps
2. Run the registerBundle program by typing:
registerBundle SQLEdit.app
3. Launch SQLEdit
a. Double-click SQLEdit.exe in File Manager
4. Play with SQLEdit:
a. type in any sql statement ended up with a semicolon sign (';') and press
<return>
b. type in 'describe YourModelName;' or 'describe YourEntityName;' to see
what happens
Any suggestions and comments are welcome! Please use e-mail to report bugs and to
croon songs of praise ...
Torsten Rendelmann
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.