"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] linuxparkerrfwicom...
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:49:44 -0700, Lee Brown wrote:
> >Do you know if the index file is in some kind of standard format (like
*.mdb
> >or .dbf).  It may be possible to write a Client-Server java application
that
> >would run on your machine (don't know if it could take the load though)
to
> >process queries that the client side java code on the loaded page could
> >transmit.  I don't know enough about the java database stuff to know how
> >easy it would be to do this.  I could write some code in Delphi that
would
> >do it, but that would mean that an .exe would have to be downloaded for
> >people to run on the client-side.  Delphi would necessitate a known
database
> >format which is why I asked that originally.  This is not a very good
> >solution I must admit, but the only one that comes to mind.

> Interesting definition of standard you have there.
Just throwing a couple of examples out, didn't want to make a stupidly large
list.

> No, the index file is in
> swish-e format, because that's what I indexed it with.
Proprietary I'm guessing?

> Server-side code would
> have to run on Linux, and client-side would have to be sufficiently
portable
> to run on, at the very least, Linux, BSD, Windows, MacOS, and BeOS.  I'd
> rather make it work in a web browser.
Java would be fine for that.  But like I said before, not a very good
solution all round, just something that I happened to think of.

> Part of the problem is that I don't want to run the server locally,
because
> I have limited bandwidth available.
That an issue that I wondered about.

> Fortunately, a solution may have presented itself.  I just need to work
out
> the details.
Great.  This would certainly be a huge enhancement to the Pov-Ray site.

Regards,
Lee
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