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Subject: Re: need DOS db recommendation
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Date: 8 Jan 91 05:56:45 GMT
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In article <2789386D.15595@ics.uci.edu> roy@ics.uci.edu (John Roy) writes:
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>I'm looking for a good database system for DOS.  It needs to be
>extendable and have some good printing and user interface stuff.  I've
>heard of Paradox (sp) 3.5, Oracle, Sybase, and Informix are there any
>others?

At risk of starting a "mine is better than yers" flame fest,
I've had quite a bit of experience with Rbase, having used the last three
versions more or less full time.  The latest (3.1) seems to be fairly
easy to use, supports SQL, imports and exports data in all kinds of
formats, and best of all, in almost 2 years of developing code on the
same data set we rely on for real stuff (asking for it I know...)
I have yet to have the thing lose data. About the worst thing I can say
about the RBase people is that if it isn't in the manual, tech support
doesn't know about it.  Founatly the manuals are well written, extensivly
indexed, and quite comprehensive.