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From: chuq@Apple.COM (That's MR. Idiot to you)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: database access in SuperCard (or HyperCard)
Keywords: database, 4th Dimension, Foxbase, Oracle
Message-ID: <43160@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 90 21:47:29 GMT
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Organization: Fictional Reality. We can write it for you wholesale
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chuq@Apple.COM (That's MR. Idiot to you) writes:

>And Apple's Data Access Language (was CL/1) also has an interface to five
>VMS-based and two IBM-based SQL systems using a common front end. DAL also
>has C and Pascal APIs if you want to do embedded things in those languages
>as well.

Oh, and one other quick note. DAL is the basis for the Data Access Manager
that will be standard in system 7.0. DAL code will be upwardly compatible
with the 7.0 stuff, too.

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Chuq Von Rospach   <+>   chuq@apple.com   <+>   [This is myself speaking]

We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested 
with losers and nut cases -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden