Re: Database Type

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> RefDB supports two input formats, RIS and risx, but they both end up in the
> same database type. RIS has no means to store user-specific data (like AV,
> RP, N1) for more than one user, whereas risx does. Therefore risx is a more
> appropriate name for the database type. The database has a type tag only
> for future compatibility with RefDB versions which may support other
> reference database types.

Hi Markus,

   Thank you. I read in the tutorial last evening that the RIS format requires
an explicit encoding, too, while risx has that as the first line of the data
file. I see that both refdb and the main reference database are encoded UTF8,
but that's not the default encoding on my system. Regardless, it works.

Thanks for all you've done -- and continue to do -- with RefDB,

Rich

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