Date:         Tue, 18 Apr 1995 12:58:45 -0500
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From:         "/R=WHEEL/R=AM/U=jeffedw/L=?/TN=?/FFN=Dean
              Jefferson/"@MR.DATCP.STATE.WI.US
Subject:      Re: Downsizing with NOMAD
In-Reply-To:  <199504072202.RAA06808@info.tamu.edu>

Our shop started out using NOMAD2 and is now doing all new development in a
client-server environment where the database is Digital RDB on VAX/VMS
servers and the client software is PC Nomad for MS-DOS.

Along the way we have converted and currently are converting a few NOMAD2
applications to PC Nomad, but we had not gotten very deeply into NOMAD2
before moving to the client-server environment.

Our experience has been that NOMAD2 and PC Nomad are substantially different
and the conversion from one to the other is certainly non-trivial. One of
our analysts is of the opinion that NOMAD2 and PC Nomad are two products
which share a name ...

The good news is that Nomad for MS-DOS, UNIX, and VMS is very, very similar
(Nomad techies I've talked to refer to it as Nomad-C; I gather that these
versions all use the same basic C language source code with minor variations
for interfacing to the operating environment.).

MUST/Thompson has published a "Nomad for UNIX Conversion Reference Manual"
which you may find useful. My copy is Revison #1, printed March 1993, order
# U100-SW, but perhaps it has been updated since.

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Dean Jefferson
Acting Database Administrator
Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture,
 Trade and Consumer Protection
Phone:    (608) 224-4787
Fax:      (608) 224-4737
Internet: jeffedw@wheel.datcp.state.wi.us
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