INFORMIX information

GRASSuser's,
  Will anyone out there with experience or knowledge of INFORMIX please
fill me in on one or two points?

  Can INFORMIX accept ASCII input dumped from a DOS database,
say dBASE III+ ? Or better yet, will it import binary files from another
database? Can INFORMIX dump files into an ASCII delimited format for use
in other databases? (Rocky is 99% DOS, only the workstations can run UNIX
databases).

  Will someone send me the address of the developers/owners of
INFORMIX (it is proprietary, I believe). Is it available on a GSA schedule?

  And to anyone who is using the alpha version of the dbtools being
developed by Jim Farley; will the vector tools recognize islands within
queried polygons and write them out (either as 0's or actual attribute) when
a new vector file is created? (RIM or the current dbtools misses these)

  Thank you
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ront@niwot.CFNR.ColoState.EDU (Ronald E. Thomas) writes:

GRASSuser's,
Will anyone out there with experience or knowledge of INFORMIX please
fill me in on one or two points?

Can INFORMIX accept ASCII input dumped from a DOS database,
say dBASE III+ ? Or better yet, will it import binary files from another
database? Can INFORMIX dump files into an ASCII delimited format for use
in other databases? (Rocky is 99% DOS, only the workstations can run UNIX
databases).

Informix has nice extensions to the SQL language for loading and unloading
ASCII delimited data. I doubt that it will convert binary files.

Will someone send me the address of the developers/owners of
INFORMIX (it is proprietary, I believe). Is it available on a GSA schedule?

Informix Software, Inc.
4100 Bohannon Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025

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