Hi I am very impressed by Railway reservation system. I want to know which database Railway reservation system uses? Are they using Linux on Oracle? In which programming language Railway reservation system is developed? I like console-based apps not bloated GUI apps, which requires mouse. I want to deploy such application for my client using MySQL but not sure, which front I should use. What about ncurses?
Thank you Komal
Hi Komal,
The CRIS (Centre for Railway Information Systems) is responsible for managing railway reservations. I had the opportunity of visiting their office in Delhi last year and I must say that they have some extremely talented programmers. At that time, they were in the process of testing Linux Thin terminals and I was working for a company that sold them a couple of pieces for testing purposes. Their application is written in C++ and it has been ported to Linux - compiles perfectly, is fast and very stable. They were planning to shift all reservation terminals to Linux in a phased manner.
Sybase is the database that they use. They were still persisting with ISCII for multilingual capabilities (not UNICODE) just because lot of code would break otherwise.
Regards, Ashok
-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in [mailto:linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in]On Behalf Of komal Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 11:47 AM To: bombay GNU/Linux Users Group; bangtech Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Rail reservation system
Hi I am very impressed by Railway reservation system. I want to know which database Railway reservation system uses? Are they using Linux on Oracle? In which programming language Railway reservation system is developed? I like console-based apps not bloated GUI apps, which requires mouse. I want to deploy such application for my client using MySQL but not sure, which front I should use. What about ncurses?
Thank you Komal
Hi Komal,
The CRIS (Centre for Railway Information Systems) is responsible for managing railway reservations. I had the opportunity of visiting their office in Delhi last year and I must say that they have some extremely talented programmers. At that time, they were in the process of testing Linux Thin terminals and I was working for a company that sold them a couple of pieces for testing purposes. Their application is written in C++ and it has been ported to Linux - compiles perfectly, is fast and very stable. They were planning to shift all reservation terminals to Linux in a phased manner.
C++ for database programming!!! Very interesting. Any link on that?
Komal
hi i am using RedhatEL3(Advence Server). i have problem in starting my Xserver. i was working fine i mean display was perfect.but after sudden power cutoff. when i rebooted my pc it was unable to go in xwindows mode. i tried all sorts of command's .but was unable to recover. here is the msg what i get.
(Xconf.py:3058): Gdk -WARNING **:locale notsupported by xlib. (xconf.py:3058):Gdk-WARNING:canot set local modifiers. couldnot start xserver,try with a fresh configuration
Trying with card :intel 810 error,cannot start xserver.
i hv intel 810 motherbord & samtron 55v monitor. & onbord graphics.
pls give me soluation.
regards Advait
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C++ for database programming!!! Very interesting. Any link on that?
Nope, not much. All I know is that they use Sybase iAnywhere (whatever that is!).
-- Ashok
Hello:
I think most databases have C/C++ API. ( Donno this is teh exact thing u asked for, I mean, a C++ API. :D)
1) Try MySQL documentation
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/plusplus/en/index.html
2) PostGRESQL documentation
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book/node150.html
Binulal Narayanan
komal wrote:
C++ for database programming!!! Very interesting. Any link on that?
Komal
Hello
Console apps are definitely more suitable for routine data feeding apps like library/reservation systems. ncurses C library is one way of doing it. However GUI (e.g Dotnet Forms) can be designed to minimize use of mouse (enabling tab sequence by specifying indexes), advantage being that more advanced controls (say date picker etc) can be used as need arises in future.
You can talk to technical people at any Railway Reservation Office. I once asked them about possible use of Optical Character Recognition for speedy processing of forms written in English instead of slow manual data typing.
It is will be interesting to know how each local reservation terminal uploads data to central database (to which http://www.indianrail.gov.in/ and http://www.indianrail.gov.in/) are web application front ends.
Hold on ! I just found required page http://www.cris.org.in/uts.htm
HTH
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:46:59 +0530, komal agencies_ad1@sancharnet.in wrote:
Hi I am very impressed by Railway reservation system. I want to know which database Railway reservation system uses? Are they using Linux on Oracle? In which programming language Railway reservation system is developed? I like console-based apps not bloated GUI apps, which requires mouse. I want to deploy such application for my client using MySQL but not sure, which front I should use. What about ncurses?
Thank you Komal
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