Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: DBMAN Message-ID: <27905@cs.yale.edu> Date: 20 Dec 90 20:46:40 GMT References: <52416@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: ginkgo.theory.cs.yale.edu Originator: fischer@ginkgo.CS.Yale.Edu In article <52416@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v053qhyx@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes: >Hi.. >I wrote a multi user inventory system for the ST using DBMAN and RTX, >after using DBMAN, it is very similiar to dbase, but also has many >problems. The version I was using (I think it was 4.0??) crashed >ALOT.. and I was never able to get the compiler to work. Many of >the commands available serve the same function as Dbase but are >called up under different names. Its been a few years since >I used DBMAN, so I reallly dont remember my complaints. But I >was not impressed.. To date I havent found a database that I still >can use on the ST... > Jeremy Try version 5. There have been a LOT of improvements from earlier versions. Compiler works fine. Don't know if it works under RTX. (Does it claim to?) Postings about bugs in obsolete versions of software aren't very helpful, nor are they fair to the vendors who go to the effort to fix bugs and release improved versions. -- ================================================== | Michael Fischer | ==================================================