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Re: Jeppesen database
A small plug for Perl (currently my favorite language :)...
Even if the planning software was written in C with a GTK/Qt/Whatever front
end, a Perl script (using DBI) would be a great took to import the data
into a local database. OR, there are ways of imbedding perl in a C
program, that could be done as well. It seems to me that Perl would be the
easiest to use for processing/import that data. Hey, there might already
be a Perl module for importing COBAL data.
Hope that sparks some ideas.
j----- k-----
(Shooting from the hip)
At 01:37 PM 3/25/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Dave Bridgham <dab@froghouse.org> (also on this list) and I purchased the
>sample data kit from Jeppesen for their database. This kit contains a
>rather large book of all the record formats and sample data of all the
>record types on floppy. It is enough to allow you to write and test
>software that will accept the Jeppesen data as input. As I recall, it was
>about $150(US) for the kit.
>
>It was very enlightening. The most obvious thing is that the format is
>clearly intended for mainframe systems. Heck, it looks like input data for
>a COBOL program (which is probably what it is). There is a *LOT* of data
>available, a lot more than I would have expected.
>
>So, for people planning to play in this area, it might be worthwhile to
>play with the Jeppesen data just to get a feel for its value. Sometimes it
>is just worth it to buy clean data than to scrounge for dirty stuff and
>then have to go to all the trouble to clean it up.
>
>
>Brian Lloyd Lucent Technologies
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