INFORMIX information

[Ronald E. Thomas]

GRASSuser's,
	Will anyone out there with experience or knowledge of INFORMIX please
fill me in on one or two points?  

	Can INFORMIX accept ASCII input dumped from a DOS database,
say dBASE III+ ?  Or better yet, will it import binary files from another
database?  Can INFORMIX dump files into an ASCII delimited format for use
in other databases? (Rocky is 99% DOS, only the workstations can run UNIX
databases).

	Will someone send me the address of the developers/owners of 
INFORMIX (it is proprietary, I believe).  Is it available on a GSA schedule?

	And to anyone who is using the alpha version of the dbtools being 
developed by Jim Farley; will the vector tools recognize islands within
queried polygons and write them out (either as 0's or actual attribute) when
a new vector file is created?  (RIM or the current dbtools misses these)

	Thank you
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   Ronald Thomas                         ^  ront at meeker.cfnr.colostate.edu
    Natural Resource Spec. (GIS)         ^  
     Resource Management Division        ^   Phone: 303-586-3565  x285
      Rocky Mountain National Park       ^          700-323-7285  (FTS)
       Estes Park, CO  80517             ^ 
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