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From: kim@m44.unm.edu
Subject: Re: Personal RBase vs Clarion Personal Developer
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 12:00:28 MST
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In article <91077.105954DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu>, DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell) writes:
>I was in a local software shop and just ran across Personal RBase
>on their shelf (I think it's a new product).
>
>I'd been looking at getting Clarion Personal Developer up to this
>point.  I've seen a demo-disk of Clarion before.  The professional
>versions of both products have received excellent ratings.
>
>Both are reasonably priced (<$100).  Both seem to be full-featured
>(for the price, anyway) environments for application development.
>I'm not interested in a product confined to an environment (IE you
>must own software X in order to run an application, template, or
>worksheet written for it).  Right now I'm leaning towards Clarion.
>
>- Does anyone have experience with either or both (I'm interested
>  in these versions, not the full-blown development versions - I
>  believe that apps from either can be moved to their 'big brother').
>
>- Clarion specifically allows redistribution (with a special execute-
>  only runtime module).  Does Personal Rbase (1) allow redistribution
>  of applications ?  (2) Provide a runtime program of sorts for their
>  apps ?  I'm not (right now, anyway) looking at commercial or shareware
>  redistribution, but I might down the road a little bit.
>
>- Are either program 'crippled' ?  Clarion doesn't appear to be in any
>  significant way.  What about Personal Rbase ?
>
>Thanks, Doug

I thought that personal Rbase was a stripped down version of the MIcrorim RBase
3.1 database program.  As such, it has all of the features of RBase 3.1, except
that it does not have a "command line" mode (equivalent to dBase dot prompt). 
I *think* it was intended as a menu-driven relational database program for
individual users.  Probably the best source of detailed info on its
capabilities would be the Microrim tech service line, whose number I don't
know.  It should be on the package, however.
Daniel Kim