Re: A worthwhile project?

Jas (matt@nospam.uts.edu.au)
Sun, 13 Nov 1994 01:19:21 +1000 (EST)

Christopher Fraser wrote this...
>
>
> Anyone looking for a study distraction?
>
> I think someone should write a textbook exchange system, partly because I
> have a pile of old textbooks I want to get rid of but mostly because
> it would be a really Useful Thing.
>
> Something along the lines of a World Wide Web accessible service which
> people could add books they have available, and for enquiring if a
> particular book was available. Other neat stuff would be lookup available
> books for a particular subject etc.
>
> I thought about writing one two years ago in C using Xt, but quickly
> abandoned it as too much work. A WWW version would probably be a few
> evenings hacking Forms and CGI scripts. The scripts used for the
> account application system (/usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/register I
> think) could probably be used as a basis for the book exchange, although
> you'd have to roll your own database back-end (reasonably easy, just use
> text files and index everything by ISBN).
>
> Although I don't have time to write and debug it myself, I would happily
> give pointers and help to someone else. Anyway, mail me if you're
> interested in discussing it ... or just go ahead do it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christopher.
>
>
cool idea. i reckon it would probably be best to use perl. easy to write
and supports dbm, handles text really easy. as for me having time to do it,
i think not. maybe someone could use it as a chance to get good at perl.

Matt

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