WDB - Version Info.

Version 1.3 - alpha version released 3-Mar-1995

New features.

• 'sameline' field attribute added, to keep a field on the same line as the previous field in the query and full screen output pages.
• 'html' field attribute to define html to be output before the current field in the query and full screen output pages.
• The wdb script now works with Perl5
• You can now query on computed fields. (It takes a bit of work on your side to make it do something though....)
• Uses single quotes rather than double quotes around strings in the SQL query. (to be compatible with mSQL)
• mSQL interface included.
• Informix interface included. (by Curtis Wong)

Bugs fixed.

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New features.

• Support for spec. null values added.
• 'add_menu' function to allow extra menu options to be added from fdf.
• Separate configuration file. Should make it easier to install and update the WDB software.
• Extracted SybPerl specific code to a separate module. This should allow easy porting of WDB to other databases, such as Oracle, Informix, etc.
• A 'Default Query' option.
• Changed the operators available in the query forms (Please see the wdb_query_help.html file for the new operators.)

Bugs fixed.

• Updated 'mkfdf' - Removed ESO / ST-ECF specific stuff from distributed version.
• Finally fixed bug with continuation lines in field attributes.
• Now handles ' and " correctly in queries on text fields.
• Only adds HREF if url is non-empty.
• + other minor bug fixes ....

New features.

• Dateformat config. option added

Bugs fixed.

• Query on 0 was ignored.
• Range query (..) f...ed up subsequent queries in the same form.
• Range queries on datetime fields didn't work.