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From: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas)
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Subject: Re: Information Request on rbase
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Date: 4 Feb 91 14:37:43 GMT
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In article <21900004@inmet> stt@inmet.inmet.com writes:
>
>Re: What is "rbase"?
>
>I suspect that "rbase" is the database programming language
>associated with the "RBASE" product, which I think is
>a clone of "DBASE II/III", and presumably supports the same
>language.  There are many books available on DBASE II/III/IV,
>so you should be able to learn something useful from them.
>-S. Tucker Taft




I did not see the note that this one respoded to, but just wanted
to clear up any confusion Mr. Taft's note may have created.

RBASE, the MS-DOS (and some other platforms I believe) database
package from MicroRim is NOT a clone of DBase, the package from Ashton-Tate.
It is a very different package, with a different sort of database
structure and a totally different Programming language.

I will not get into questions of which is better (though since I
was for a period a certified developer for MicroRim, I obviously have
some opinions on that), but just wanted to point out that they
were not the same thing.


Josh



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