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From: wmf@chinet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Need Help!!!
Message-ID: <890@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 00:06:34 EST
Article-I.D.: chinet.890
Posted: Thu Apr 23 00:06:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 05:43:57 EST
References: <1468@leadsv.UUCP>
Reply-To: wmf@chinet.UUCP (William M. Fischer)
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Organization: Black Dog Moving and Storage (chinet), Chicago, Il
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Keywords: Filepro, help

In article <1468@leadsv.UUCP> falsken@leadsv.UUCP (Gary Falsken) writes:
>I need to get a hold of the company that makes a database called
>Filepro.  

filePro or Profile (to you tandy folks) is a "pretty good" database manager
that has been ported to a lot of Xenix / Unix systems. The two versions I have
worked with were known as "filePro" on a Microsoft XENIX running on a PC-AT and
good ol' Profile on the Tandy Model 6000 Xenix box. 

It is a relational database, allowing multiple, indexed files to be open and
has a host of other features, like user menus and interfaces to word proceesors
and spreadsheets.

As far as "user friendlyness" (sp?) goes, I guess it depends on which side
of the street you are coming from... compared to some of the PC-DOS data base
systems that all but design themselves, it's a tough chore to properly configurea Profile (filePro) application that isn't too twitchy for a less experienced
user to comfortably use. On the other hand, moving down from the byzantine
world of main frame data base systems, Profile is a positive dream. The docs
are good, if not ponderous, the support (at least from Radio Shack / Tandy)
was sympathetic and usually helpful.

The company name is, I believe, Small Systems Computer ... my only set of docs
is from Radio Shack, who supports the software independently, so that's all I
have on them.

If you can afford to spend the time with the software, tho, you can be 
rewarded with some really slick custom applications.

Adios,


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