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From: ucbked@athena.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Support for variable length text fields
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Date: 14 Sep 90 03:05:21 GMT
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In article <13652@hydra.gatech.EDU> jgb@prism.gatech.EDU (James G. Baker) writes:
>In article <59463@bbn.BBN.COM> delatizk@bbn.com (Jonathan Delatizky) writes:
>>A friend has asked me to find him a PC database (to run on an IBM AT-class
>>clone) that has true support for variable length text fields.  The data in
>>question can have text lengths (in the same field) ranging from about 30
>>characters to several hundred.

Bibliofile is a set of tools for processing bibliographic records.  It
is entirely variable length text fields.  Fields can be from 1 to
whatever memory you can grab.  In most implementations this is at least
4K per field.

Bibliofile runs under MSDOS, 4.3 BSD, SCO Xenix, etc.  The MSDOS
version needs the MKS Toolkit (or clones of vi and sort) for full
functionality.

Bibliofile is available at no charge.  For further information,
send e-mail to me.