RIM - Relational Information Manager RIM is a relational DBMS which is the ancestor of the Rbase databases and the various commercial RIMs. It is presented here complete, with all sources, courtesy of Glenn Everhart. This is a port to Amiga of the port from VMS to IBM PC, and as such has still a fairly crude user interface. The saving grace of RIM is that it is suitable for VERY large databases, using B-Tree data storage, and that RIM has a program interface. That is, if you don't like the way RIM handles data input and/or reporting, you can replace it with your own. The included documents give the complete story on this. (You'll need a Fortran compiler to do this; the Absoft Fortran 2.3 was used here and is quite reasonable as an Amiga language. No guarantees this code will work can be given for any other Fortran.) To use RIM, you should at least look at the RIMCRD.DOC file in the document archive (preferably read the manual!!!). Then de-archive the RIM executable and the HELPDB1, HELPDB2, and HELPDB3 files in the area you want to run RIM from. HELPDBn are the HELP database. Unless these are in your default directory, RIM will not be able to respond to the HELP command. The version of RIM here should be able to handle all databases handled by the VAX/VMS version of RIM, or by the IBM PC version (available from PC Blue or various other places). You'll need to use the database import/export facilities, since the internals of the databases differ from little-endian machines to big-endian ones. The Rbase databases may not be able to handle the full size of these databases, and I know nothing of what the commercial versions can do. While you should need no extra stack to run RIM (it was compiled with the -H option to force memory allocation from the heap), you may well need more than 512K. RIM may still have some rough edges. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who finds something that fails. RIM is public domain, but I'd like to ask that if you like RIM and use it, please send me some encouragement to continue developing Amiga utilities. Code for something YOU are working on would be most appreciated. Failing that, donations of $10 are solicited. Anyone sending me $15 and his address and a note that he wants a copy of RIM will receive a disk containing the RIM kit: executable, documents, sources, and whatever else fits, for the current version. (A $15.00 donation can also be used to get me to send you the latest AnalytiCalc spreadsheet, which fits -barely - into 512K and will do LOTS of stuff the commercial sheets can't. It needs to be run from an interlaced screen (interlace turned on in Preferences), as did the older one on Fish disk 104. (If you try to run AnalytiCalc without booting from a disk with interlace turned on by Preferences, it may crash all the way back to asking for Kickstart on an A1000, or for Workbench disk in A500/A2000.) Anyone developing a better front end to RIM is urged to send me a copy for inclusion in the distribution. I'll find a way to repay such an effort most handsomely. Glenn Everhart 25 Sleigh Ride Rd Glen Mills, PA 19342