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From: kgg@zinn.MV.COM (Kenn Goutal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Dbase software
Summary: SDB;  PDSS
Message-ID: <752@zinn.MV.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 90 03:49:25 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.145126.3392@cbnewsj.att.com> <B0=$DQ+@rpi.edu> <1407@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Organization: Zinn Computer Co., Litchfield NH
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I have a program called SDB -- Simple DataBase, or some such --
that implements a relational database, similar to Datatrieve and/or Rdb
on the VAX, DB2 on IBM mainframes, Oracle, Sybase, InterBase, whatever.
Of course, it's somewhat limited compared to these full-scale products
because (a) it was written as a learning experiment and (b) it was
originally written to run on a 60kb (!) machine.  But given that
understanding, it does a pretty good job.  It has forms, of a sort,
(actually more like scripts that prompt you for input for fields)
and ways to format the output into tabular reports.  Again, nothing
fancy -- no pagination or summary lines -- but a start.
It was written by David Betz, author of Xlisp, Xscheme, and AdvSys.
Source files and a document are available as well as a .PRG file.

I also have a public domain spreadsheet called (appropriately enough)
PDSS.  I've never used it, but the friend I got it from uses it all
the time.

Let me know if you are interested in either of these,
and we'll work something out. Probably send me a floppy, 
and I'll send it back with the stuff on it.

Regards,

-- Kenn Goutal

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