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From: stern6@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Omnis 3
Summary: need some info
Message-ID: <1991May21.141636.1091@husc3.harvard.edu>
Date: 21 May 91 18:16:35 GMT
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I'm working for an organization that has a 3200K database in Omnis 3 format.
They have a 1985 version on Omnis, which works well enough on the Mac+,
plus dies on more recent machines.  I have been asked to find an update
to Omnis or to convert the file to some format that a more recent database
program can read.

I therefore have two questions:

1) Does Blythe software sitll exist?  I can't find them.  If not, has some-
   body else purchased the package?  Who is supporting it?

2) In any case, does anybody have any information about the Omnis 3 file
   format?  I've poked around with a sector editor and everything looks
   straight-forward except "number" fields, which are strangely encoded.

Thanks greatly for your help.

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         Michael Stern        *  "I love children, especially when they cry,
                              *   for then someone takes them away."  
  stern6@husc9.harvard.edu    *                         -Nancy Mitford
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