[open-cobol-list] More on VBISAM

[Roger While]

An update on the VBISAM discussion.
None of the developers seem to be contactable.
Noone is replying and addresses that I found on the web
get bounced. Hmm.

Anyway, I grabbed the 1.03 release and "libtoolized" it.
Take it for a test drive -> www.sim-basis.de/vbisam103.tar.gz

Just do the usual ./configure, make, make install
There are no special configure options for vbisam.

Changes (other than the libtool) are as follows :
Release split into 3 directories:
libvbisam - The library itself
bin - The binary support programs
tests - The test programs

Source has only been changed for the endian checks which
we already have in config.h

There is no automated test/check yet.
Got to the tests directory and do
./MVTest create
./MVTest 100

NOTE - For OC use, VBISAM is missing one important feature;
That is the capability to pass an own compare routine to the library.
(Needed for COLLATING SEQUENCE)

A version based on the VBISAM CVS coming soon (Still trying to track
down a segfault in the code)

Roger