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From: patel@mwunix.mitre.org (Anup C. Patel)
Subject: Re: Software for use with DAL ?
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Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 16:29:06 GMT

In article <1991May21.053216.1970@newshost.anu.edu.au> white@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Dave White) writes:
>Is there any software (PD or otherwise) that uses DAL - the Database extension  that is installed with System 7 ?  Is there some way of using it without anything else ?  (You can tell that I haven't got the manuals :-))  
>	Anyone ?  Anyone ?
>
>Thanks in advance (anyone come up with a word for that yet ? :)),
>
>Dave.
>
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I believe MS Excel 3.0 has DAL capabilities.  I have Excel 3.0 for Mac, and 
want to access our SQL database on a IBM mainframe.  DAL should help, although
I think the mainframe also needs some form of a front-end process to accept
DAL connections.