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From: ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: dBMAN V Review (long)
Summary: Use for an ARexx port
Message-ID: <7226@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 8 Dec 90 15:24:39 GMT
References: <4010@mindlink.UUCP> <18025@netcom.UUCP> <18090@netcom.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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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.

Well, here's an ARexx/Database application I've been needing for a while;
I run a BBS-PC! system for a local Amiga users group, and while we like
the reliability of BBS-PC!, its extensibility is, to be polite, very
limited. I have figured out how to get reasonable communications in and
out via an Arexx exec, and if I had an ARexx-equipped database program I
could then provide online services like a membership directory, catalog of
the club's PD library indexed by keyword, a decent index of the BBS file
section, an indexed listing of other Amiga BBS's in the area, plugs for
the vendors that donate demo copies to the club <grin>, etc. 
  Scott Denham
   Club Amiga, Houston, Tx