Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!wuarchive!rex!ames!haven!mimsy!prometheus!media!hqda-ai!samt19!hq!par From: par@hq.af.mil (Paul A. Reitelbach) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Looking for an MS-DOS relational database system Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 91 14:22:01 GMT References: <1991Jan20.172308.1@lucy.claremont.edu> Sender: par@hq.hq.af.mil Organization: HQ US Air Force, The Pentagon Lines: 34 In-reply-to: levericw@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu's message of 21 Jan 91 15:01:16 GMT dh> Does anybody know of a good PD/Shareware/Commercial Relational dh> Database for MSDOS? I'd prefer something that uses SQL and dh> doesn't constrain me to some stupid specialized interface (e.g., dh> I'd like to be able to write my own front ends in TurboC or dh> somesuch.) dh> -dh >Try dBase IV from Ashton Tate. It has a SQL interface and allows you >to run binary images, so as long as you do not get to complex in your >screen design, you should be able to use Turbo C. But the built-in >screen design tool is not that bad either. >Avg Price in Computer Shopper: ~400 dollars. >-Walden Try Clipper v5.0 that is the best software I know for data bases on the PC, I am now programming in it and I love it. It has interfaces for C and assembler built in, in fact I beleive and other compiled language file can be linked in to the application. I don't know about SQL though, I have used it on mini and mainframe systems but I have not used it on the micro yet. Clipper is a compiled language Dbase is not plus it is very slow plus Clipper runs everything that Dbase does. If you have more questions about Clipper please send e-mail? Hope this helps... -- Paul A. Reitelbach * There's a way to do it better - Computer Programmer/Analyst * find it. United States Air Force Civilian * Pentagon, Washington, D.C. * Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)