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From: tr@thumper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Relational DB on PCs and Macs
Message-ID: <551@thumper.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 08:49:44 EST
Article-I.D.: thumper.551
Posted: Tue Mar 31 08:49:44 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 3-Apr-87 01:18:08 EST
References: <2841@ecsvax.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Communications Research
Lines: 25
Keywords: Relational, PC, Macintosh
Summary: dBase III actually works.

In article <2841@ecsvax.UUCP>, losee@ecsvax.UUCP (Robert Losee) writes:
| 
| Can anyone suggest database packages that appear to be really relational 
| (Unlike DBase III, for example, with its difficult to use join) 
| that is supported on both the IBM PC and the Mac?
| I am looking for a package that can be used for a large intro class and
| would like software that can make use of all the micros we have to avoid
| congestion.  If it weren't for the presence of the Macs, I would use
| RBase, but I don't think it is available for the Macs.
| 
| Thanks in advance.
| 
| Bob Losee   losee@ecsvax.{uucp/bitnet}

I don't know if dBase III is available on the Mac.  I seem to remember
it is.

Anyway, are you familiar with the SET RELATION command?  You can list
more than one file at a time, as if they were joined, without joining.
JOINing is slow, I admit, but SET RELATION is not.

-- 
Tom Reingold
Internet: tr@bellcore.com
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