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Movie "TITANIC" which won 14 OSCAR awards, GLOBE award and the best
movie
of the year (which already made $300 million US dollars in box office)
is
made with Linux and PostgreSQL!!
The entire animation and computer graphics was done
on Linux Digital Alpha box and PostgreSQL was used to store the data!!
When you see the movie "TITANIC" you are actually seeing the "LIVE DEMO"
of Linux and PostgreSQL!! Also Linux won the "Network Operating system
of the
year 1997" as per InfoWorld January 97 issue. The message is - for all
your database needs use PostgreSQL.
For more details check this doc below --->
Database Howto Version 4.0 document is located at -
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
Also you can find this document at the following mirrors sites -
http://www.caldera.com/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html http://www.WGS.com/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/ldp/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html Other mirror sites near you (network-address-wise) can be found at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/hmirrors.htmlselect a site and go to directory /LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
This document is published in 10 different formats namely - DVI, Postscript, Latex, LyX, GNU-info, HTML, RTF(Rich Text Format), Plain-text, Unix man pages and SGML.
You can get this HOWTO document as a single file tar ball in HTML, DVI, Postscript or SGML formats from -
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/ Plain text format is in: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO
CAUTION: The document is large, total number of pages printed will be 212 pages (postscript version).
Translations to other languages like French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese are in
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO Any help from you to translate to other languages is welcome.
The document is written using a tool called "SGML tool" which can be got from - http://www.xs4all.nl/~cg/sgmltools/ Compiling the source you will get the following commands like
sgml2html databasehowto.sgml (to generate html file) sgml2rtf databasehowto.sgml (to generate RTF file) sgml2latex databasehowto.sgml (to generate latex file) etc..Received on Tue Feb 10 1998 - 00:00:00 CST