Re: Oraperl, Where? argh..

From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce_at_ig.co.uk>
Date: 1995/06/21
Message-ID: <DAIsDM.D8r_at_ig.co.uk>#1/1

In article <DACA9G.6oE_at_cunews.carleton.ca>, Darrell Cavens <dcavens_at_schoolnet.carleton.ca> wrote:
> I have just recieved a trail licence from oracle for their rdbms, and I
> will be comparing it to informix. I would like to test the oraperl
> interface.
>
> Ok, I have searched around the net, including Oracles dozer web site.
> I can find examples and uses of oraperl, but I cant find it! argh.
>
> Can somebody please help? Is there a faq on it or an installation/
> usage guide out there somewhere?
>

*The* DBperl archive is under ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/perl/db/

Here's the README:

• snip ---

Perl Database Interface FTP Archive

Maintained on ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/perl/db by Tim.Bunce_at_ig.co.uk

Contents:

• Files:

ls-lR      Recursive directory and file listing. Note that this is a listing
           from my home system and NOT this archive.  A few files listed are
           not available here for FTP.

• Directories

DBI/           The home of the DBI archive. To join the DBI mailing list
               send your request to perldb-interest-REQUEST_at_vix.com

DBD/           Database Drivers for the DBI ...

  Oracle/      By Tim Bunce (not yet ready!)
  Ingres/      By Tim Bunce (not yet started!)

  others to be added in time...

mod/ Other Perl 5 Modules and Extensions ...

   Sybperl/ By Michael Peppler, mpeppler_at_itf.ch

perl4/ Perl 4 extensions (using the usub C interface)

    oraperl/   ORACLE 6 & 7  By Kevin Stock (sadly no longer on the net)
    sybperl/   SYBASE 4      By Michael Peppler, mpeppler_at_itf.ch
    ingperl/   INGRES        By Tim Bunce timbo_at_ig.co.uk and Ted Lemon
    isqlperl/  INFORMIX      By William Hails, bill_at_tardis.co.uk
    interperl/ INTERBASE     By Buzz Moschetti, buzz_at_bear.com
    uniperl/   UNIFY 5.0     By Rick Wargo, rickers_at_coe.drexel.edu
    pgperl/    POSTGRES      By Igor Metz, metz_at_iam.unibe.ch

    btreeperl/ NDBM perl extensions.   By John Conover, john_at_johncon.com

    ctreeperl/ C-Tree perl extensions. By John Conover, john_at_johncon.com     cisamperl/ INFORMIX C-ISAM. By Mathias Koerber, mathias_at_unicorn.swi.com.sg     duaperl/ X.500 Directory User Agent. By Eric Douglas.

scripts/ Perl and shell scripts

    rdb/       RDB, a perl RDBMS for ASCII files. By Walt Hobbs, hobbs_at_rand.org
    shql/      SHQL is an interactive SQL database engine.  Written as a shell
               script, SHQL interprets SQL commands and manipulates flat files
               based on those commands. By Bruce Momjian, root_at_candle.uucp
    xbase/     Perl scripts for accessing xBase style files (dBase III)


refinfo/       Reference information

    sqlsyntax/ Yacc and lex syntax and C source code for SQL1 and SQL2 from
               ftp.uu.net:/pub/uunet/published/oreilly/nutshell/yacclex,
               and a draft SQL3 syntax from Jeff Fried <jfried_at_informix.com>

    formats/ Details of file formats such as Lotus 1-2-3 .WK1

web/ See below

    This is just a temporary holding area for libwww-perl and cgi-perl     mailing lists. The contents of this directory are NOT for general release.

If you know of any database related perl extensions or scripts PLEASE send them to me (Tim.Bunce_at_ig.co.uk) or tell me where to find them and I'll put a copy here. Thanks.

Tim Bunce. Received on Wed Jun 21 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST