Given the choice in the Domino Directory between a visible view with an alias and a hidden view w/o an alias, which would you refer to programmatically, assuming both provide the information you’re looking for, e.g. the Connections view or the ($Connections) view?
Subject: So which view would you use and why?
Hidden view. It’s less likely to change because the server internals rely on those views, and backwards compatibility on the NAB design is a paramount consideration for subsequent releases of Domino.
In fact, the R6 directory is the first one that I know of that isn’t backwards compatible all the way to V2. The UNK table size (list of all the field names in the docs and design) is too large to be workable on those prior versions. (Don’t know if there’s some workaround for that, but would love to hear it if so.)
Subject: What? You want to downgrade to R2?
Subject: RE: What? You want to downgrade to R2?
If I had an R2 floppy disk set and a copy of OS/2, I certainly would install an R2 server! That would be a blast. Plus, it’d be funny to see how fast it runs on modern hardware. True, it wouldn’t do much, but you could put some of the simpler designs on it and have fun.
Admittedly, an R3 server would probably have a lot more use, and would run on NT.
Subject: *Hmm. I have a copy of R2, and a live OS/2 box. Maybe I’ll give it a try.