Data conversion
Ernie, just browsing by the forum when I noticed NIMBUS … I've been
perusing ROMWARE and other packages with the interest to publish a CD-ROM
application. I understand that data files are stored in different formats
etc which then dictates retrieval/access methods.
What is involved in putting together a CD-ROM application ? From data
preparation to production ? Does the data exist as standard DOS files with
multiple indices defined into the data ? How is data retrieval/access
achieved ? Are there toolkits/commercial products available to aid the
process ?
Correct me if I am wrong, ROMWARE is such a tool and provides a development
environment as well as retrieval software for the CD-ROM publication. I did
not see any reference to a retrieval engine toolkit, i.e. ROMWARE users
must use the retrieval software provided by ROMWARE. That would seem
rather limiting from a software development point of view, what if a
different screen/display/interpretation of the data is required, would it
hook into external display drivers/routines ?
Regards, Caesar.