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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Data Base Mangers
Summary: dBMAN seems OK
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.131049.22650@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 9 Dec 90 13:10:49 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.180612.12451@cbnewsm.att.com> <1990Dec6.132542.15217@actrix.gen.nz>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1990Dec6.132542.15217@actrix.gen.nz> Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>In article <1990Dec5.180612.12451@cbnewsm.att.com> wao@cbnewsm.att.com
>(william.a.oswald) writes:
>> I'm thinking of buying a database manager but the topic of what is
>> good and not so good has not come up recently. So, any body have any
>> recommendations? How good is DBman, is it worth the money? By the
>> way, my needs range from simple to complex and I would rather
>> invest in a piece of software that I won't out grow.
> 
>Go for Adimends or some think like that, was on some of the Atari
>Flyers, and mentioned that the German Justice Dept: was using it, It
>was quoted some months back that Kuma (UK) were marketing it,
>12,Horseshoe Park, Pangbourne, Berkshire  RGB 7JW
>Phone No. 0734-844335 Fax: 0734-844339, ive herd that Dbman is a bag
>of worms, and not the same as Dbase at all..

I'm not a dBASE user, although I've worked some with dBASE clones, and
dBMAN seems fine to me.  I have version V and it seems to do whatever I
read about in the dBASE books I have.  The main problem I have with it
is that although it reads PC .DBF files fine, I can't get FoxPro or DBXL
to import dBMAN files -- then again, I haven't tried hard.

It would be interesting to hear from a more experienced database user.
Also, since dBMAN runs on many different platforms, how compatible is
the ST version with the Unix version and so on?

-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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