Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Spectre
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Apr 27 2022 07:41:09

  Re: Re: Windows vs Linux
  By: Spectre to boraxman on Wed Apr 27 2022 09:25 pm

 >  bo> I just don't see it.  The basic paradigm is the same now as it was in 1999.  Y
 >  bo> may have data in an excel spreadsheet, to extract the data, you have to open
 >  bo> Excel, select the "File -> Open" option, open the file, use Excels search
 >  bo> functionality, find the record containing the key you need, navigate to the ce
 >  bo> which has the data you want, CTRL-C, then switch to where you want to put the
 >  bo> data, put your mouse pointer there, CTRL-V. Repeat.
 > 
 > Ponder how is that different in Nix?  Sure you can feed your data through a variety
 > ad hoc tools, but it still really belongs to whatever it was
 > created in.  Its not like you can do much to an SQL database with a text
 > editor or spreadsheet... I will freely admit I have no experience with a nix gui so
 > there might be something I'm missing. But the premise seem to me to be the same
 > regardless of O/S or platform. Specific data types belong to
 > specific applications... the only change will be how you can try to integrate that
 > data into other uses.
 > 
 > Spec
 > 
 > 
 > *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]

Well, my roguelike SSH server uses a custom shell that is backed by an SQLite
database. The users may register and add entries to the database, or change their own
data. The shell serves as an interface to the database and the shell is very
monolithic.

However, if need be, the database can be manipulated and processed by a number of
standard tools (such as SQLite's own tools) so you can extract, add or modify entries
with custom scripts without depending on the original application that created those
entries (the game shell).

Typical Unix friendly tools try to store data in portable formats that may be easily
processed by other arbitrary tools. Sure, I can create a custom tool to parse an Open
Document Spreadsheet, but it is so much easier to create a custom filter to parse a
Wordgrinder file, which is text based. Plus Wordgrinder itself makes it easy to deploy
your own filters or parsers.

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