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From: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: DBase on Unix?
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Date: 9 Sep 90 01:27:31 GMT
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nol2321@dsacg4.dsac.dla.mil (Jim Dunn) writes:

>The fact is that this dBASE database file format is NOTHING MORE THAN AN 
>ISAM FILE WITH A HEADER TACKED ON THE TOP!  It's not really a database, no
>more than any FLAT file is!

True, but what gives dBase and its various clone implementations the
popularity is the flexability of the programming language. Over the three
years which I have been using Clipper for MS-DOS dBase applications, there
hasn't been a single application I haven't been able to handle in Clipper.

MD
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