[HECnet] HECnet .HLP library for OpenVMS

[Mark Benson]

My only other thought is maybe a DEC-based database like DATATRIEVE
might have a TCP/IP connection I might be able to poke with a modern
language to extract data from? I am not sure though. I only work in a
very narrow field myself with modern systems so I'm not an expert, I
just like the idea of attacking this, but I might be overthinking it a
bit ;)

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Mark Benson

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 08/09/2015 00:57, Sampsa Laine wrote:
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>> Yeah, that should be doable.
>>
>> Doesn't even need to be a database, just an agreed markup structure and
>> files..
>>
>> Then just convert them to whatever format you want.
>
>
> Using flat files makes it less easy to search and query the data, and also
> potentially makes the data structure less flexible for future applications,
> but it is easier to host and transport. Kind of. But please, no XML. It
> makes my ears bleed.
>
> I'd love to do a Python/Django/PostgreSQL project with a set of output
> scripts but I have no Django-friendly hosting that could be reliably
> internet-facing available (only LAMP and frankly I'm starting to dislike PHP
> more and more). A
>
> I tried goofing with MediaWiki a while back but found it to be... well not
> to my taste. It's a useful tool but it's not the right one for this IMHO, I
> think outputting Wiki data to files for various OSs might be a bit of a
> bear.
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