Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!mdfreed
From: mdfreed@ziebmef.mef.org (Mark Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: CData - the Cheap Data Base Management System
Message-ID: <1989Aug25.102108.21501@ziebmef.mef.org>
Date: 25 Aug 89 14:21:07 GMT
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Reply-To: mdfreed@ziebmef.mef.org (Mark Freedman)
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(Al Steven Books / Software .... Cheap Data Base ... etc.)

   I bought Al Stevens' earlier book and disk "C Development Tools for the
IBM PC", and have also grabbed his screen-handling routines published in
Doctor Dobbs' Journal from Compuserve. To his credit, he did send two bug
fix postcards for the development tools (hmmm .... better support than some
expensive products), but I've never cared for the design or crash-prone
implementation of his libraries.
    Is the "Cheap Data BAse" more robust than the DDJ routines (I can crash
data entry simply by inserting characters until the field overflows. of 
course, an end-user would **NEVER** do such a thing :-)). I can't see
spending a lot of time debugging his code when commercial products are
available at such low prices.