RE: [school-discuss] District DNA Getting Started Guide

["James Smyth" <smyth@northeast.tec.ma.us>]

My software the client side runs on win32 platforms at this time. There
is a version of Delphi that run on Linux called Kylex, but I have not
tried it and I doubt that all the components that I use would work under
Linux. One for sure is the spelling checker. For spell checking I
basically call MS Word. The software will run without MS Word but you
will not be able to spell check. This mainly affects IEPs (Individual
Education Plans) where there is a lot of free hand text.

I use many OS (Windows, MAC, Linux, Unix etc). I take no position on any
of them. They are just platforms for my programs. I use Delphi because I
teach it and I have not seen any other system which allows one person to
achieve so much and has the performance to schedule a large school in
under 30 seconds.

James P. Smyth
Technology Coordinator
Northeast Metropolitan School District


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Steelhead
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [school-discuss] District DNA Getting Started Guide

That means there is a server (for running the Firebird database) and a
client (for running my software). The client must run Windows 2000 or
better, the server can run anything that runs Firebird (Linux, Windows
2000
etc).

By better, do you mean Linux?

Bill
(Yes it is outlook on Winxp)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Smyth, James" <smyth@northeast.tec.ma.us>
To: <schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 10:44 AM
Subject: [school-discuss] District DNA Getting Started Guide


> I have posted a getting started guide on my web site
www.districtdna.com
> <http://www.districtdna.com/>  . It is a large system (287 tables in
the
> database) and it takes a bit to get started. I hope I have remembered
> everything but if you have problems drop me a e-mail.
>
>
> Good luck.
>
> James P. Smyth
> Technology Coordinator
> Northeast Metropolitan School District
>
>
>
 (Yes it is outlook on Winxp)