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diff --git a/databases/rdb/pkg-descr b/databases/rdb/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index ad6fcfe9bee8..000000000000 --- a/databases/rdb/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ - RDB is a fast, portable, relational database management system -without arbitrary limits, (other than memory and processor speed) that -runs under, and interacts with, the UNIX Operating system. - It uses the Operator/Stream DBMS paradigm described in "Unix -Review", March, 1991, page 24, entitled "A 4GL Language". There are a -number of "operators" that each perform a unique function on the data. -The "stream" is supplied by the UNIX Input/Output redirection mechanism. -Therefore each operator processes some data and then passes it along to -the next operator via the UNIX pipe function. This is very efficient as -UNIX pipes are implemented in memory (at least in versions of UNIX at -RAND). RDB is compliant with the "Relational Model". - The data is contained in regular UNIX ASCII files, and so can be -manipulated by regular UNIX utilities, e.g. ls, wc, mv, cp, cat, more, -less, editors like the RAND editor 'e', head, RCS, etc. |