The documentation uses a multi-frame display that provides a large
viewing window with smaller document control windows.
The major document layout features are shown in the illustration below.
Viewing Options
- menu windows on left
- menu windows on top
- menu windows on right
Deliverables
Files
Text files for the logical model may be found at
/Files. This includes
- EXPRESS files.
- Rational Rose 98 model file.
- Incremental Express Change files.
- DDL files for the Sample Implementation.
- Projected EXPRESS files (EXPRESS V1 compliant).
Format
Minimum requirement for the Web browser - The browser must support JavaScript 1.1 and HTML frames:
- Netscape - must have JavaScript enabled:
- Navigator 3.0 or up or
- Communicator 4.0 or up.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) - must have ActiveScript enabled:
- MSIE 3.02 with JScript 2.0 engine upgrade (Compatible to JavaScript v1.1) or
- MSIE 4.0 or up.
- MS Windows 3.x:
- You cannot install these files on a Windows 3.x disk and browse them locally because
the Windows 3.1 file system does not support long file names.
However, you can use UNIX, Windows 95 or Windows NT as servers and access the files from
a Windows 3.x client using the HTTP protocol (see restriction below).
- Web browsers under Windows 3.1 may not work for browsing some ER diagrams because of
the 64KB segment limitation.
File Naming Convention:
- long directory and file names (not the DOS 8.3 convention)
- directory names: MixedCaseWithoutUnderbars
- file names: lower_case_with_underbars
Distribution
This specification may be viewed on the POSC web site (http://www.posc.org).
License
All of the items included in this distribution are licensed to you under the
terms and conditions of the agreement found in the
POSC Software License Agreement.
Copyright © 1994-2001 POSC. All rights reserved.