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From: zwilling@barney.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Zwilling)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Re^2: Moving to the Unix environment from Clipper and MS-DOeSn't.
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Date: 17 Oct 89 16:07:05 GMT
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In article <226@labii.UUCP> shevett@labii.UUCP (Dave Shevett) writes:
>monty@delphi.uchicago.edu (Monty Mullig) writes:
>
>>i have to suggest starting from scratch.  the MS-DOS and unix worlds
>>are so different and the db packages available on unix so richly
>>featured that i think trying to preserve the clipper/dos programming
>>environment would severely limit you in the long run, or at least
>>would deny you the best of the unix world and its software.  just my
>>opinion, though.
>>--monty
>
>I think you should seriously look at Foxbase under [X|U]nix.  If you're

This comment may show my ignorance of current DOS based DBMS's, but
I'll make it anyway.  It seems that in all this discussion, transaction
and recovery facilities are never mentioned.  When I used DOS systems
such as D:base III and R:Base a couple years ago, they had no such
facilities.  But, it seems that the UNIX systems such as Ingres and
Oracle do.  

Don't users want transactions and recovery facilities in DOS based
systems?  Are they available in current systems?


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Mike Zwilling   University of Wisconsin -- Madison              
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