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I still consider OSMO as a DataBase, you just have to change colums names in file .mo
Export to csv format, your data can be imported by all the systems (including Dbase).
What people omit to say, we are speaking of DATABASE .... management
A table is like a spreadsheet.
MS Access, for instance, pick up some colums in several database to make a report, one column must be common.
By experience i can tell you that when you must create the report form, 90% of MS access lovers change their opinion. Too much work. for an ugly result.

I have been working for six years with Dbase II for managing seals, unions, and others peanuts allocated in 250 line stations in the world. If i Tell you Osmo can do it, believe me
OSMO only miss a column in tasks common with contacts
Who is in charge of task ?
Linux makes no difference if contact is an human, an object or a speedy Puppy Linux (without Libre Office to trail)
350 USD is cheap, isn't it ?

Kexi will import the csv files created by Osmo without trouble. That is Nice, only with existing applications in Puppy Linux (KDE 1.6.3 is only 47MB )
Demo done with an european Puppy (Hungarian, zone €uro)

Last step of the process : import and rename columns. Pelo makes life easy for his office staff (women at 90%). What a Boss

Rename the columns (caution save your data, because structure change will erase them) . reimport data when 'birthday' has been changed to 'Acquired on'

Sorry to revive such an old thread but was looking for a super simple database and landed up here.

Amazing how often it's the simple, easy things in life that make the most difference and fields.awk is one of those.
It suits my needs perfectly.

Thank you musher0 for posting about it and of course thanks to Ian R. Forsyth for writing it.

Pete wrote:Sorry to revive such an old thread but was looking for a super simple database and landed up here.

Amazing how often it's the simple, easy things in life that make the most difference and fields.awk is one of those.
It suits my needs perfectly.

Thank you musher0 for posting about it and of course thanks to Ian R. Forsyth for writing it.

My pleasure!

BTW, the files produced by fields.awk are 99% compatible with Gnumeric.
By 99% I mean that if one leaves the "::" between fields, Gnumeric inserts the data on every second column.

Easy fix, make a copy of the database file, and replace all "::" with a single ":"

Now can import the file into Gnumeric (just select all files not database files)
and generate stats or even graphs.

The "@@@" at the beginning does not seem to bother Gnumeric at all.

It also occurred to me that field.awk is a perfect lightweight DB for small computers like the Rasp PI.
However be aware of this:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 7&p=178094

The post is from 2012, so don't know if it still applies and don't have a PI (thinking of getting one) so can't test.

If anyone here has a PI and is willing to test and report back, that would be great.

Example file (with "::" removed):

Great find, Pete! Thanks!

Pleasure musher0.

It also works in OpenOffice (3.4.1) under Mac.
Here I didn't even bother to take out the "::"

Also OK with Google Drive (Google Sheets).
Just need to specify "custom separator" i.e. "::"

Found a bug which is urxvt related and not fields.awk related.

When reading/displaying from a file and the data exceeds a certain amount of lines,
one cannot scroll down anymore even if it's made fullscreen.

I installed LXTerminal (ver 0.1.11) from the official Slacko 14 repo and problem gone.

Anyway I prefer LXTerminal as it has better copy+paste functionality.

Running Slacko 6.3 (32 bit)

Hi Musher, do you have a thread for fields.awk support? I tried to install the pet but it said "failed to install" (Slacko 5.6 derivative). I tried clicking the fields.awk script and my puppy doesn't know what to do with it (nor do I !!).

Any assistance or headslaps gratefully received.

@greengeek

I'm using Slacko 6.3 32 bit and fields.awk is working perfectly.
Keep in mind that as musher0 wrote, it's a CLI pgm so start a terminal, rather use LXTerminal over URXVT (available in the PPM) then just type in fields.awk

When you run fields.awk for the first time, it will ask you to select/create a database directory.
Ffom there then you can carry on.

Another point to note, fields.awk uses a .txt extension for it's databases.
When opening a new one, or selecting one, never include the extension, just the name else it gets all confused as it appends the .txt automatically so MyDB.txt will become MyDB.txt.txt which of course will not exist.

musher0 wrote:Hello all.

I found an interesting "fields.awk" script through ask.com:
http://www.ask.com/youtube?q=fields.awk ... archTopBox

Hi Musher - I think the link you posted should be replaced with this:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/HC8Az9W8F ... autoplay=0

(I also followed the link from one of your other posts but that just went to the search page too, instead of direct to the tutorial.

cheers!

@greengeek

Edited my post after you posted yours.

Thanks Pete. I had foolishly pre-pended the awk script with #!/bin/sh. Duh!
Got it working now - just need to view the tute a couple more times.
cheers!

Glad you got it sorted.

greengeek wrote:

musher0 wrote:Hello all.

I found an interesting "fields.awk" script through ask.com:
http://www.ask.com/youtube?q=fields.awk ... archTopBox

Hi Musher - I think the link you posted should be replaced with this:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/HC8Az9W8F ... autoplay=0

(I also followed the link from one of your other posts but that just went to the search page too, instead of direct to the tutorial.

cheers!

Many thanks for pointing that out, greengeek. I corrected my original post about fields.awk.

If you could tell me where that "other post" is, I'll correct it too. (I've written a lot of posts
on this forum!) TIA.

BFN.

musher0 wrote:If you could tell me where that "other post" is, I'll correct it too. (I've written a lot of posts
on this forum!)

It's this post back a couple of pages.
cheers!