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On 07/06/13 10:06, Adrian Midgley
wrote:
Blackwell Idealist was the best for libraries. My
old copy runs under Wine.
A full text database with indexing and and hoc fields
seems the dort of thing someone could write for Linux.
Not me, alas.
On 6 Jun 2013 21:39, "Philip Hudson" < phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 6 Jun, 2013, at 9:17 pm, Gordon Henderson wrote:
Although you've not actually said what you want it for...
Yes, that was a mistake. But c'mon Gordon, you know you don't
need to point out those basic facts to me. I stretch sed to
its limits on a regular basis.
So: it's for a non-technical, naive user, who has been
maintaining a c500-row library catalogue in a spreadsheet, and
screwing it up in mind-boggling ways, over and over. User
education has repeatedly failed. I need a no-brainer RAD GUI
one-record-at-a-time CRUD app with a single table and export
to CSV, or preferably, something that JFW with a single CSV
file. We need to keep the data as either CSV or a common
spreadsheet format for interchange with other users with
absolutely unknown systems, who will usually need read-only
access. One form, one report, one table, one file, no indexes.
Oh, and no budget.
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OK, these are probably not what you're after, but both both are for
libraries and will export to XHTML and other formats. Alexandria for
sure saves everything in a very unfancy flat format, so maybe the
database file can just be opened as a space delimited csv
spreadsheet or if individual records per book a macro inserted into
?office. And I can do you a "cuecat" ISBN barcode scanner for
postage... I've mostly stopped buying paper type books...
http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/features.html
Tellico is KDE but does collections other than books.
http://tellico-project.org/
Simon
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