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From: pjzg1012@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Peter J Ziemkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: database access in SuperCard (or HyperCard)
Summary: Need to know about ways of accessing a database from another application.
Keywords: database, 4th Dimension, Foxbase, Oracle
Message-ID: <1990Jul19.035636.14352@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Jul 90 03:56:36 GMT
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HELP!  I need to access a database from within another application.  In this 
case SuperCard 1.5.  I've heard of HyperHit.  Anybody ever use it?  Talk to
me.

I've also read about the new 4D Externals kit from Acius.  One review said 
something like "It gives access to the 4D database engine from within a 
high-level programming language."  Another said that it was only to be used
to write 4D externals (so that it wouldn't work from another application's 
space).  Who's right?  

I've also heard that Oracle has some sort of Hypercard Interface.  Has 
anybody ever used that?

If you think this is a pretty obscure problem (and don't want to waste net
bandwidth for it) email me and I'll summarize and post to the net.

(My vi is flipping out, so any misspellings above are not necessarily my 
fault.)

Thanks.
Pete.