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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: does dbaseIII+ exist in French?
Message-ID: <2600442c.3fcf@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 16 Mar 90 01:41:00 GMT
References: <186@uncmed.med.unc.edu>
Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
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In article <186@uncmed.med.unc.edu> danielg@uncmed.med.unc.edu () writes:
>I have an application, written in dbaseIII+ code.  My friend here, from
>Paris tells me that her lab also has dbaseIII+, and that it is all in
>French.  I asked her if just the manuals were in French, but she says that
>the menus may be in French also, not sure.  
>
>Is the programming language of her package in 'easy-use-*French*-like'
>style, or is there only one dbaseIII+, period, for the whole world, like
>it or not? :^).  Will my app. run on her package?

Ashton-Tate is pretty big in France.  Actually they have a French licensee
called La Commande Electronique (if I remember correctly).  They do a
Francicised version of all the A-T products, and sell them at a hefty
markup (about 4x the English version, I think).  They had dBaseIV out at
the same time as the US, or within a few weeks of its release.

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the dBaseIII LANGUAGE
is the same as the US version, but all the prompts, error messages, etc,
are in french, as well as the manuals, of course.


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John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
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