[DB-SIG] ctree

[Carsten Haese]

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 15:45 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> Carsten Haese wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 14:57 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> >> I need to read some data from an old system that is running on a 1999 linux box. 
> >> Using strings, I find:
> >>
> >>   FairCom(R) Server and c-tree Plus(R)
> > 
> > According to http://www.faircom.com/products/ctree/CTP_APIs.shtml there
> > doesn't seem to be a Python API, as if that's a surprise, but there are
> > a low-level ISAM API and a C API. With any luck, one of those APIs
> > should already be on that server. That might be enough to at least get a
> > data dump.
> 
> Well, I did C back in 1900's, so my skills are a bit rusty.  I did find this:
> 

If you're better in Perl, god forbid, there's
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/Db-Ctree/Db/Ctree.html

Alternatively, if the C API is present as a shared object (.so), you
could try to use it from Python with ctypes. Then again, depending on
the hairiness of the API, that may require a strong stomach and a high
pain threshold.
 
Good luck,

-- 
Carsten Haese
http://informixdb.sourceforge.net