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From: joec@Morgan.COM (Joe Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: dbase3 or 4 question
Keywords: relational db
Message-ID: <364@s6.Morgan.COM>
Date: 4 Sep 89 01:58:56 GMT
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Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co. NY, NY
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I am not a regular reader of this newsgroup so forgive me if this has
been beaten to death already...
A friend wishes to know if DBASE (or some other s/w package) can handle
this class of problem:
His business is legal, he being a lawyer. He wishes to be able to pose
to his s/w questions like:
LIST records with name=xxxxx and topic=yyyyy and between date1 and date2.
FIND string between record1 and recordN.

He wishes to be able to scan any set of documents for a given set of strings:
FIND string1 or string2 or string3 or (string4 and string5) between record1 and
    recordn.
He really doesn't need access to an existing db system per se. Rather,
he is on a complex legal case and has amassed a pile of documents that is a 
foot thick and growing. He feels its time to organize it better.
Soooo.....
Can DBASE handle the above? How would you frame this in DBASE?
If a better package is around, what is it? 

Please email me direct....and,   THANKS

joec@morgan.com