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initial import of openisis 0.9.0 vendor drop

1 Since version 0.8.7 (October 2002) openisis is able to store
2 new or updated records in the masterfile.
3 Programmers may call the function openIsisWrite,
4 see openisis.c for sample usage.
5
6 From the command line, the openisis executable accepts
7 a new -write option which specifies a database,
8 where all retrieved records are written to.
9 This works with all record selections like dump, search, scan, mfnlist
10 and the -stream option for reading records from text files.
11
12 examples:
13 $
14 # dump (copy) the whole unesb database to cds
15 openisis -db db/unesb/unesb -write db/cds/cds
16 # copy only records found for azteca
17 openisis -db db/unesb/unesb -search azteca -write db/cds/cds
18 # add the syspar.par as new record to the cds db
19 openisis -stream -write db/cds/cds </c/winisis/syspar.par
20 $
21
22
23 The modified masterfile is readable by both DOS ISIS and WinIsis.
24 The DOS/Windows version of wwwisis should also work.
25 No attempt is made to support writing of aligned ("UNIX") masterfiles.
26
27 NOTE:
28
29 You *HAVE* to make sure that only one process has the
30 database open for writing.
31 Reading processes, however, should not be affected.
32 Within Java, use synchronized.
33 With other environments, use lockfiles or whatever seems fit.
34
35
36 CAVEAT:
37
38 The index is NOT updated and we're not planning to write
39 the update code for the legacy index structures.
40 (We propose a separate, somewhat different index structure).
41 The CDS/ISIS for DOS or WinIsis index update functions can be used
42 to refresh the index.
43
44
45 Under Linux this is also possible from batch using dosemu's keystroke feature.
46 The following was tested with dosemu 1.0.2,
47 which uses per-user configuration in ~/dosemu.
48
49 - have Micro CDS/ISIS for DOS Version 3.08 installed under
50 c:\cds (where "c:\" is ~/dosemu/drives/c)
51 - give it a syspar-entry to use a data dir similar to winisis
52 5=c:\cds\data\
53 - link this data dir to your db/cds/cds
54 - run something like the following:
55 $
56 # note the dosemu shell script breaks an -I param
57 # by using $@ instead of "$@"
58 #
59 # note the \p300; to wait 3 seconds so that freedos startup doesn't
60 # eat the keystrokes -- very unreliable of course,
61 # using dosemu's -U control pipes is much better ...
62 #
63 BASE=$HOME/dosemu
64 /opt/dosemu/bin/dosemu.bin -D-a --Flibdir $BASE/conf \
65 --Fimagedir $BASE -f $BASE/conf/dosemurc -O \
66 -I 'keystroke "\p300;cd cds\risis\r\p100;i'"${1:-cds}"'\ru\rxxexitemu\r"' \
67 2>$BASE/boot.log
68 $

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