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qchange

Section: Herrin Software Development, Inc. (1)
Updated: 21 Oct 2000
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NAME

qchange - Change an existing record in a QDDB database.  

SYNOPSIS

qchange RelationDirectory
 

DESCRIPTION

qchange attempts to change an existing tuple in the QDDB database contained in the directory RelationDirectory. qchange is intended only for use by TCL/TK scripts and reads the changed entry via standard input (stdin).  

INTERFACING WITH TCL

qchange accepts records from standard input (stdin) in the following format (following the Schema described in the query(1) manual page): 

    Author,1 Eric H. Herrin II
    Author,2 Raphael A. Finkel
    Title,1 An ASCII Database for Fast Queries of Relatively Stable Data
    Description,1 This is a description with a backslashed newline \ 
in it.  Each newline must be backslashed.
    Borrower.Name,1.1 Joe Moses
    Borrower.Phone,1.1 (606) 222-5555
    Borrower.Name,2.1 Jane Sword
    Borrower.Phone,2.1 (578) 432-1234
    Borrower.Phone,2.2 (578) 432-3232

 

SEE ALSO

qadd(1), qedit(1)  

BUGS

None known.  

REFERENCES

A Guide to QDDB
Eric H. Herrin II and Raphael A. Finkel

Qddb User's Guide

An ASCII Database for Fast Queries of Relatively Stable Data
Eric H. Herrin II and Raphael A. Finkel
Computing Systems, Volume 4 Number 2
University of California Press, Berkeley CA

Schema and Tuple Trees: An Intuitive Structure for 
Representing Relational Data
Eric H. Herrin, II and Raphael A. Finkel
Computing Systems, Volume 9, Number 2
MIT Press, Cambridge MA

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
INTERFACING WITH TCL
SEE ALSO
BUGS
REFERENCES
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