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From: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: databases for MS-Windows
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Date: 24 Aug 90 14:10:09 GMT
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In article <1990Aug21.044320.10802@fs-1.iastate.edu> pixel@iastate.edu (Rauhauser Neal Robert) writes:
>
>    I have been developing applications in Actor and patiently
>waiting for some PD database classes to show up. My patience
>is nearly at an end. I need a light weight DBMS for Windows
>that will allow me to produce a compiled version of the
>application and distribute it without a runtime. I've been

For those folks working in Actor and need a database capability may want
to try QE (Query + Edit).  No, this doesn't answer Neal's needs for a
database class, as QE is a database program (for $99) with DDE capability.

The idea is that Actor can use QE as a database engine (dbase, SQL server,
etc) via DDE.  This is of course all theory as I have not yet been able
to get Actor to use DDE in a useful manner.  If anyone has put together a
DDE class for Actor (initiate, execute, poke, terminate, etc) that is
more complete than the example provided by Whitewater, I would love to get 
a copy. I suspect you need to be a *real* windows programmer (ie, have the
SDK and documentation) to figure out how to use DDE in actor.


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