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From: wally@pallas.athenanet.com (Wally Hartshorn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: dBMan 5 (Was Re: Still no Ami businessware.)
Summary: Tell me more.
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Date: 13 Mar 91 03:06:04 GMT
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In article <27839@netcom.COM> rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe) writes:
>Once again, allow me to mention dBMan 5, a dBaseIII clone with enough extra
>features to compete with dBaseIV, Clipper, etc.

I've been using FoxPro (v1.0) at work on a Compaq.  Do you know enough
about FoxPro to make a comparison to dBMan 5?  I have Superbase Personal
on the Amiga and have been debating upgrading it to professional (3.0),
but I want to do a bit more investigation of the competition before I
do that.  I don't need dBaseIII compatibility, nor a dBase "look and
feel", but I like the features and power that FoxPro has (along with
the FoxDoc and FoxView utilities).  I particularly like FoxPro's
"memo" field type -- a text field of any length, which doesn't use
any more space than what is actually in the field.  Thus one record can
have a memo of 500 bytes, while another record has a memo of only 20 bytes
and a third has no memo at all.

Also, just as a thought, does/will dBMan support ARexx?

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-- 
Wally Hartshorn (uunet!pallas!wally or wally@athenanet.com)
President, Amiga Computer Enthusiasts of Springfield (ACES)
Chronicler, Shire of Swordcliff, SCA
Sysop, The Quest, F&SF BBS, Citadel-68K node US (217) 546-7608