• Antelope Release 5.2-64 Linux Red Hat Enterprise Workstation release 6.2 (Santiago) 2.6.32 2012-04-24

 

NAME

dbe, .dbe.pf - database editor/viewer

SYNOPSIS

dbe [-e] [-p pf] db[.tbl]
	[ db2[.tbl2]  ...]
	[-f field ...]

DESCRIPTION

dbe is a general purpose tool for examining, exploring and editing Datascope databases. The arguments are database names, db, which may be qualified with table names, tbl. You can pass it the names of databases or tables to display; a single dash indicates that a view is to be read from stdin.

When the first argument(s) are tables to be opened, you may specify a list of fields to display by starting the list with -f. Of course, the fields need to be in the table!

The best way to learn about dbe is to try all the menus, or work through the Test Drive in the user's guide (see $ANTELOPE/doc/datascope.pdf). This man page is only introductory.

Some of the things you can do are:

Useful to know Bindings

OPTIONS

PARAMETER FILE

The default parameter file for dbe is named .dbe.pf, and will be found in your home directory as well as in the standard locations $ANTELOPE/data/pf and the current working directory.

Schema specific parameters

There are separate sections of the parameter file for different schemas. The following parameters may be repeated in each such section.

Graph options

EXAMPLE

After some exploring, are you wondering how you created the current display? Try the Help->process menu:

SEE ALSO

BUGS AND CAVEATS

To read a personal .dbe.pf from the home directory, dbe modifies the PFPATH briefly by appending $HOME:. as .dbe.pf is read.

Especially on long-distance connections (e.g., running dbe on a machine in California, while displaying the windows on a machine in New York), there is a tendency to get tk errors when a window is dismissed. This is evidently an underlying flaw in tcl/tk.

You can run dbe on multiple databases at once only if they share the same schema. This limitation is easily avoided by running multiple instances of dbe.

AUTHOR

Daniel Quinlan
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