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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: dBMAN V Review (long)
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Date: 8 Dec 90 19:48:29 GMT
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In article <18090@netcom.UUCP>, rodent@netcom.UUCP (Richard Noah) writes:
> 
>> >Sounds Usefull. But I'd still want an AREXX port!.
>> 
>> Have an application in mind?  Show us how you could use an ARexx port and
>> we'll put one in.

You've GOT to be kidding, right? I mean a database is the single most natural
platform for a full Arexx interface.

Think about it... you fire up the 'engine', without the user interface, without
requiring manual operator intervention (and you can use ARexx to fire it up in
the first place). You then interact with it via ARexx alone, opening/closing
databases, adding/deleting/updating records, searching for and retrieving
records, sending parts or all of a record to a file or another application, or
out the serial port or out the printer port or whatever else the user might
think of.

Jeez... no wonder databases are so dull. The authors of them have no
imagination whatsoever.

-larry

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