[Gambas-user] Gambas and the andlinux project

[Doriano Blengino]

admhardsoft at ...253... ha scritto:
> Hi somebody in this list have experience working with andlinux proyect for windows? If yes somebody can tell me where andlinux store the programs that you install in your pc? In special a DB in mysql, somebody can help me?
> Thanks
> Sincerely
> Tomas
>   
Andlinux (at least the old version I use) stores its filesystems in big 
files on the host OS. On my computer, in f:\andlinux\drives\ I have two 
files, "base.drv" (2Gib) and "swap.drv" (256Mib). I think they are no 
more than a "file version" of a disk partition, having nothing else than 
the raw cylinders/sectors one after each other, but I am not sure about 
this.

Anyway, consider two things. First, those files should be considered as 
black boxes - leave them alone. Second, even if you could peek/poke 
inside them, still you have to cope with the files generated by mysql, 
which again should be considered black boxes. For the first problem, 
note that andlinux can mount windoze partitions (even usb sticks, and 
CDs - not sure about SMB shares, which can be mounted anyway from linux 
bypassing windows). For the second problem (accessing mysql files), you 
can rely on mysql_xxx commands to do whatever you want. If you really 
want to share the same data, store the databases in a partition visible 
from both windows and andlinux. It could work, especially if the mysql 
server version of both computers is the same - but don't run the two 
servers at the same time :-)

Or, and I think it is the best, you run only one server, either on win 
or linux, and access it using TCP/IP (andlinux and the windows host 
communicate over TCP/IP as they were two different machines).

Hope everything is clear,
regards,
Doriano