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From: px@fct.unl.pt (Joaquim Baptista [pxQuim])
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Need information about NATURAL
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Date: 5 Jun 91 16:32:08 GMT
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In-Reply-To: nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk's message of 4 Jun 91 08:52:46 GMT

In article <1991Jun4.085246.25664@cl.cam.ac.uk> nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick
Maclaren) writes:

   I wrote:

   < I had a look at it once.  It was part of a (probably) public domain
   < database called ADABAS, written in COBOL.

   There may have been more than one variant of ADABAS, but the one we had
   was certainly not public domain.

Some public office related to environmental matters bought a
mainframe, and got ADABAS for free.  That's why I thought it probably
was public domain software.

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Joaquim Baptista, aka px@fct.unl.pt, px@unl.uucp
Snail: CRIA, UNINOVA, FCT/UNL, 2825 Mt Caparica, Portugal

So long, and thanks for all the fish.