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- From: ono@mood.mech.tohoku.ac.jp (Noboru Ono)
- Newsgroups: sci.materials
- Subject: MOOD/P3-PC: {Materials,Miniature} OODBS for IBM-PC
- Message-ID: <ONO.92Nov10110229@mood.mood.mech.tohoku.ac.jp>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 02:02:29 GMT
- Sender: news@akiu.gw.tohoku.ac.jp
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- Organization: Dept. of Machine Intelligence and Systems Engineering, Fac. Eng.,
- Tohoku Univ., Sendai 980 Japan
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-
- thanking many people's interest on the previous product of our project,
- MOOD/P3, now we have made anonymous-ftp'able from
-
- mood.mech.tohoku.ac.jp (130.34.88.61)
-
- a more portable and readable version, MOOD/P3-PC.
-
- MOOD/P3(-PC) is a general purpose OODBS program. yet we call this
- for "Material's data" and post this in this news-group because we
- think that this much capability is needed to deal with material data
- whose contents tend to spill out of the ability of conventional
- database systems. from its release note:
-
- ====================================================================
- MOOD/P3-PC ver.1.00:
- Material's/Miniature Object-Oriented Database Prototype for
- NEC/IBM-PC,
-
- is an object-oriented database system program and does exactly the
- same thing as our previous release, MOOD/P3, which was exclusively for
- NEC/PC-9801. See, therefore, the manual for MOOD/P3 in ../doc if you
- are interested in what it is all about.
-
- this release is made in the form of source program files to be
- consulted and run on Arity/Prolog interpreter. the program is supposed
- to be portable among NEC/PC-9801, its clones, IBM-PC and its clones
- with MS-DOS and Arity/Prolog Interpreter. We could have tested this
- on:
- 1) NEC/PCs with MS-DOS 3.3
- 2) a nameless IBM-PC clone machine with MS-DOS/V, both in Japanese
- and English modes.
-
- we are not very sure if this program runs OK in other IBM-PC
- environment. we would be very pleased indeed if you tell us the result
- you get on your machine.
-
- making MOOD/P3 portable was accomplished by removing the usage of
- C-functions which rely on particular hardware configulations of
- NEC/PC. This results in the abolision of
-
- 1) the use of graphic drawings in display things,
- 2) the use of mouse,
- 3) hardware dependent scrolling and screen saving/restoring.
-
- the first wouldn't matter much and the second would have made things a
- bit inconvenient. The third should have made the program slower;
- however, we think we have overcome this by changing the methods of
- pretty-printing and focus manipulations.
-
- rather, these changes make the program simpler and more readable
- so that this release would provide better platform to which you may
- put in further inovations in regard to OODBS functionalities and user
- interface behavior. we are pleased to hear these from you.
-
- In association with the above change, key assignments are
- slightly changed from those described in the MOOD/P3 manual. the new
- key assignments can be found in the source program file, EO.ARI, or in
- menu display invoked by hitting H in Object-Editor.
-
- also, the function of class-tree display is largely enriched;
- we now call it the class-manager which is capable of:
-
- 1) cruising entire class tree,
- 2) edit a class,
- 3) moving a brach by rewriting the superclass in the above,
- 4) deleting an unnecessary class.
-
- the key-command menu for the class-manager, promptings and source
- program, CLASSMGR.ARI will explain its use.
-
- ==================================================================
-
- We hope you will enjoy this program. mails telling bugs,
- inconveniences, objections will be appreciated.
- --
-
- Noboru Ono
- Dept. of Machine Intelligence and Systems Engineering,
- Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University.
- Tel:++22-222-1800, Fax:++22-268-3688, E-mail:ono@mood.mech.tohoku.ac.jp
-