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From: rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe)
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Subject: Re: DBManV
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Date: 10 May 91 01:55:54 GMT
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rsutton@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Roy A Sutton) writes:

>For a long time know I have been looking for a Database system 
>for the amiga which will allow me to run it from a terminal
>connected to the amiga via a serial port...
>Does DBManV have an option which will allow it to run strictly
>within a cli?

   Well, if you think about the fact that dBMan uses Intuition menus and
can load iff pictures, you might guess that it would be difficult to do.
However, we actually could do it in a matter of days, if people asked for
it.  This is because we use the same source on all machines... including
Unix boxes that ONLY have terminals hooked serially.  So it'd be easy.
The binary would be different, of course (smaller!).  100% of the
functionality of dBMan (including pull-down menus and the text editor)
would be available over a serial line.

  Question: how would you want to run this, start terminal-dBMan from the
Amiga, having it start talking to AUX:, or would you start it from a CLI
you have running out of AUX: already?

>Roy Sutton

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Ben Discoe, head programmer at VersaSoft and Big Fan of Japanese Food.