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From: DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell)
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Subject: Re: Personal RBase vs Clarion Personal Developer
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Date: 18 Mar 91 21:17:10 GMT
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In article <00945CA1.45D8C020@m44.unm.edu>, kim@m44.unm.edu says:
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>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).

That's pretty-much the same difference between Clarion Personal and Pro-
fessional developer (there are others - you can't use the language extension
modules with personal, etc).  There was a comparison between the two Clarion
products in a recent Programmer's Connection catalog.  One note - Clarion's
Personal Developer is at R2.0, Professional Developer has been upgraded to
2.1.  I'm not sure what the significance is.

It sounds like Personal Rbase is going for the same market - personal
relational database needs that full Clarion/Rbase/dBase/Paradox would
be overkill.  Little things like "can I give a copy of this CD database
application to my friends if they don't have personal Rbase" were what
I was concerned about.

Doug