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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: Re^2: dBASE IV - is this for real?
Message-ID: <1989Jul5.230331.7565@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <11@cica.cica.indiana.edu> <3520001@hpindda.HP.COM>

In article <3520001@hpindda.HP.COM> keithb@hpindda.HP.COM (Keith Broussard) writes:
>Anyway, if you don't use dBase IV because you don't like the opening
>graphics, or you think it's slower than dBase III+, or you have
>something against a powerful and easy to use user interface (menus and
>popups), or whatever, then leave messages in notefiles that pretain to
>what you use.  Leave us (however sorry you feel for us) dBase IV users
>alone and find someone else to gripe to.

I think all this griping is useful. I've heard alot of specific negatives
on DBase and nothing but "ah, c'mon it's not that bad" and precious few
specific rebuttles / fixes from guys like you (by "you" I mean happier
DBase customers; I don't mean anything nasty). I'm still looking to buy
a database for my business work. I'm being rather solidly convinced that
DBase is *not* worth looking at.

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