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From: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Losers - Taurus, Acquisition, Haitex, me
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Date: 28 Jun 89 23:52:31 GMT
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Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
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In article <8458@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
>Superbase Pro isn't a relational database. Or maybe it is... if so,
>it's a very WEIRD relational database. For that matter, it's a rather
>weird database period. I'll agree about the power... it has a built-in
>BASIC-like programming language, so will do an aweful lot of odd
>things.

Like, I did a substantial amount of number crunching with it.  A
spreadsheet would've been *much* faster, but it could have never
organized it all, considering the data is in about 5 databases.
I even had it gathering data according to filters, sending it out to a
file, and calling MultiPlot to plot it.

Oh, did someone mention it does ARexx?  Well, it does.  I haven't done
more than experiment a bit, though.

>But -- easy to use? The documentation is miserable and
>useless.

Sorry, but I disagree.  I find the documentation well-organized and very
useful.  It *is* lacking in some areas, but I certainly didn't have to
go to any heroic efforts to learn how to do just about everything I
wanted to do.  This is the first database I've ever used, too.  (Well,
okay, SB Personal was the first, but it is just a subset of SBPro.)
Maybe that's why I can easily put up with the things you call "wierd".
I don't know any better.  Or you have preconcieved notions.  :-)

>PS: A year ago, we nick-named Superbase "SuperBug". I'm playing with
>sbpro3 right now... I'm curious whether they fixed all those bugs, or
>merely replaced them with new ones. But at least they put out a new
>revision, unlike SOME companies.

No, they really fixed them.  I've really only found one reproduceable
bug in SBPro 3.01.  (Use Setfont to install topaz 11.  Run SBPro.  It
uses the new font for everything.  *very* nice.  Open text editor.  It
uses it too.  close text editor.  use Setfont to change font to topaz 8.
Re-open text editor.  Looks silly.  Not what I'd call a major bug,
though.)

-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP