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From: brad@microm.UUCP (Bradley W. Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Info on Quicksilver/UNIX
Keywords: dBase,database,compiler
Message-ID: <8@microm.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 91 19:29:40 GMT
Organization: Micro Maintenance, INC., Tempe, AZ
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I'm considering purchasing Wordtech's Quicksilver for UNIX ... mainly
because it is supposed to produce true executables with out the need
for runtime distrbution. I had attended their booth at Comdex last
fall, but no one there seemed to be up on the specifics of the UNIX
product ... they were promarily pushing the new DOS based version, 
"Arago".

Of cousre when you call Wordtech directly on specs, the story is that
the UNIX product is blindingly fast, fully dBase III+ compatible, and 
has a rich set of functions ... but when I ask about specfic capabilities
concerning windowing, scrolling arrays and such needed to build proper
pick lists, I seem to get a lot of "ummm ... I'l have to get back to 
you on that" type of answers. The small ammount of pamphlet info they'll
send you suggests some windowing support, multidimensional arrays, and
a symbolic debugger, but does not elaborate. They also have a BBS, *but*
you must be a registered owner of Quicksilver to get on it. I was 
hoping to ask some of these questions there ... oh well.

An application I'm interested in using this compiler with is SBT accounting,
with is pretty much plain dBase source ... runs pretty darn slow under
Foxbase for Xenix.

So if anyone has had the pleasure of working with this product, and can
give me a little feedback, I'd be grateful!
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