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From: rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Best Business Software And Ideas Needed
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.223412.21645@netcom.COM>
Date: 4 Jun 91 22:34:12 GMT
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ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes:

>I'm planning
>on DBMan V as the best database. I need to fill the following other areas:
>mailing lists, word processors (best simple and full-featured), form maker,

dBMAN should be able to handle your mailing list and for-making needs.

> My second question deals with linking this all together.  [....]
> The cash registers were computers
>with touch screens.

You probably are aware that Touch screens are available for the Amiga.
If I recall, they aren't cheap.

>The question is does the
>right software exist? I was thinking about AmigaVision to produced touch
>screen interfacing at the sales units. 

I'm not sure AmigaVision is the most appropriate tool for this job.
How about CanDo?

> I guess something like D-Net might be
>a good choice to network them to the main unit.

I don't think DNET is what you want.  You may want to look at PARNET
or just use serial cables with a ARexx-capable term program at each end.

> The questions arise when it
>comes to controlling a register device and what type of front-end software
>must exist at the main unit.

This depends entirely on the specific machinery you wish to interface.
You won't find software for the Amiga made for a SPECIFIC register vendor,
but the machine may be flexible or support a standard, like RS232.

> Perhaps DBMan V has provisions for this?

dBMAN is a 100% dBASE 3+ clone, with some extensions for friendly menus and
report generation.  Anything extra (i.e. cash registers, bar code scanners)
depends on the hardware involved.

>DBMan V is DBase V compatible, so does this mean
           (dBASE 3+)
>that I need only get the various MSDOS scripts onto the Amiga to use them?

That's correct.  We're 100% data and code compatible.

>   Tom

>       Why purchase a MAC when an Amiga with the same CPU will run 99% of all
>    __ MAC software..and FASTER at that?!

And completely for free, too!
(software Mac emulation is only one 192K file)

> __/// IBM's greatest sales 
> \XX/  tool is ignorance on the consumer's part.

True IBM advert quote seen elsewhere on the net: "The less you know about
personal computers, the more you'll want to have the New IBM PS/1!"

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Ben Discoe, radical ecologist, computer scientist, loony at large.