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Subject: Re: DATA BASE FOR IBM PC
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Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 09:49:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 20 09:49:24 1984
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Take a look at KnowledgeMan.  This is built by Micro Data Base Systems
(I have no connection with them, although they are a West Lafayette
company).  I have read the manual on KMAN and it really looks
exciting.  I know one professor who has used dBASE II heavily and has
now converted most of his work over to KMAN.  You can have more than
one file open at a time, with multiple index relations, and updates
will take care of updating all of them as required.  It also has really
nice screen formatting and report formatting capabilities.  Index files
are B+trees.  Query language is essentially SQL as seen on IBM's mainframe
DBMS.  Limits on number of fields, etc. are much larger than dBASE II.
Most of them are something like 65535 fields.

	Tom Putnam
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