The Cheetah data management system
P. Kunz, Gary B. Word · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 1992
Cheetah is a data management system based on the C programming language.The premise of Cheetah is that the "banks" of FORTRAN based systems should be "structures" as defined by the C language.Cheetah is a system to manage these structures, while preserving the use of the C language in its native form.For C structures managed by Cheetah, the user can use Cheetah utilities such as reading and writing, in a machine independent form, both binary and text files to disk or over a network.Files written by Cheetah also contain a dictionary describing in detail the data contained in the file.Such information is intended to be used by interactive programs for presenting the contents of the file.Cheetah has been ported to many different operating systems with no operating system dependent switches.