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RE: [ECS] Database Idea Ingo Pakleppa Wed, 05 Jul 2000 08:59:52 -0700

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Mark could even go one step further and make the events and items database 
records.

Ingo

At 08:52 AM 7/5/00 -0700, Martin Terry wrote:
>I think it's a good idea. You could do a lot of cool things with this.
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>From: Scott Danks [mailto:sdanks@ci.tulsa.ok.us]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 7:27 AM
>To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
>Subject: Re: [ECS] Database Idea
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>So did anyone think that it would be a good idea to see if Mark would put a
>way to talk to an external database through DDE or ODBC into the ECS
>program?  I was thinking that for tables of information, this would allow us
>to use something like access97 and make a DB and use it's forms to fill in
>the data then access it from ecs.  Or has anyone else done anything like
>this?  I looked at the DDE interface in ECS and it looks like it can only be
>a server and not the client. ???
>
>Any ideas?

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