Btrieve

Btrieve is a database system originally developed by SoftCraft (Austin, Texas). In 1987 the company was purchased by Novell.

Features

Provided interface routines for languages:

• BASIC
  • IBM BASIC Interpreter and BASIC Compiler
  • Microsoft QuickBASIC
  • Turbo Basic
• C
  • Lattice C
  • Microsoft C
  • Turbo C
• COBOL
  • MicroFocus COBOL
  • Microsoft COBOL V2
  • Realia COBOL
• Pascal
  • IBM Pascal Compiler
  • Microsoft Pascal
  • Turbo Pascal

OS/2 Workstation

• BREQUEST.DLL

  SET REQPARMS=

  /R: number of mapped drives

  /D: data message length

  /S: number of file servers

• BTRCALLS.DLL

Versions

SoftCraft Inc.

• 1.0 (Feb 1982)
• 2.0 (Feb 1983)
• 3.0 (1984)
• 3.1 (Mar 1985) - Btrieve/N
• 4.0 (Feb 1986)
• 4.1
• 5.0 (1987)

Novell

• Jan 1988: Btrieve 5.1 for IBM OS/2
• Jun 1992: Btrieve 6.0

Btrieve Technologies, Inc. (BTI)

• Btrieve for OS/2 v6.15 (Mar 1995)
• Btrieve for OS/2 v6.15.925 (Oct 1995)

Pervasive Software

• Btrieve Client/Server Database Engine for IBM OS/2 Warp Server - Version 6.3 (Nov 1996)
• 7.0 (Mar 1998)

Tools

• Rtrieve - report writer
• Xtrieve - query utility

• REXXBTRV - REXX Interface for OS/2 Btrieve
• BTRVRX - Interface to Btrieve 5.10a for OS/2
• Btrieve Commander - Btrieve file viewer/editor

Classic Software Inc.

• Btrv++ - C++ class library
• Btrvgen++ - Windows-based database code generation system for Btrv++
• CBtrv - C library
• VBtrv - Visual Basic interface

Publications

• Jim Kyle: Btrieve Complete: A Guide for Developers and System Administrators - Addison-Wesley 1995, ISBN 0-201-48326-2

Links

• http://www.nomad.ee/btrieve/files/