Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!apple!bc
From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: database access in SuperCard (or HyperCard)
Keywords: database, 4th Dimension, Foxbase, Oracle
Message-ID: <43161@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 90 22:13:49 GMT
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Chuq:
|That's not close to true. Oracle has a hypercard interface for its database.
|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.

Let me try again. If you want a Macintosh database (that runs
completely on your mac, NOT a server), Oracle for Mac and Hybase both
have SQL support. Others might, but I haven't heard.

If you want a Mac interface to a mainframe database, there are, to use
the technical term, drillions. Hell, I wrote some.

But all this is neither detritus nor screed.