Ryan McFarland Corp has announced a transparent interface between its products and Novell Inc’s NetWare Btrieve Record Manager: RM/Cobol-85 for Netware is an enhanced implementation of RM/Cobol-85 for MS-DOS Version 5; the enhancements provide the capability to access Btrieve files from RM/Cobol-85 programs using standard Cobol syntax without modification, access to indexed files created by the languages, ability to log updates using Btrieve files; and there is added functionality that includes distributed support, dynamic index and file structures, a fault-tolerant option, password security, data encryption, data compression and roll forward capabilities; no prices were given for the product.
