Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!nengle From: nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (nathan engle) Subject: Re: Lantastic Message-ID: <1991Apr15.140823.1042@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Keywords: Lantastic, Network Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington References: <5233@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM> <322@bdgltd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 14:08:23 GMT Lines: 22 In article <322@bdgltd.UUCP> ela@.UUCP (Ed Ackerman Programmer) writes: >What you use as a database engine should dictate what network you should >use. Novell has a very nice database (Btrieve) Applications that use it >can go from single user to a network with very minor modifications. >dBase III requires more work, and I cant comment on any others. I inherited responsibility for an orphaned dBase III app that had been compiled under Clipper 87. I spent about 3 days adding record locking to 6 programs; I guess it was a lot of work, but the results have been better than expected. As a single-user application on an XT, this critical database was almost never backed up. Now it's part of the regular server backup. >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Ed Ackerman | It is impossible to make anything >bdgltd!ela@dsi.com or ...!dsinc!bdgltd!ela| foolproof beacause fools are >#include | SO ingenious! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Absolutely true. Nathan Engle Software Evangelist Indiana University Dept of Psychology nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu