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From: tony@killer.UUCP (Tony Holden)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Need Help!!!
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Date: Sun, 26-Apr-87 21:21:18 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 26 21:21:18 1987
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in article <1468@leadsv.UUCP>, falsken@leadsv.UUCP (Gary Falsken) says:
> 
> I need to get a hold of the company that makes a database called
> Filepro.  It runs on various machines.  Also, If you have used such
> please tell me your opinion.  
> 

I use it, but would like to have the time to learn something a little more
powerful.   But anyway, here goes.

Everything is menu driven which is nice when you are just starting up but gets
to be a pain in the a** later in life.  Screens and reports are easy to setup.
But of course you'll live in the programing section call Define Processing. 
There are + and - here.  The programing language is a lot like BASIC.  Makes it
easy to learn but gets in the way later.  You are locked in standard format of
entering programs:
label :if conditions
      : program statements

The "if" line and "program" line are limited to 71 characters.  

You have temp. variables, but they can only be 1 or 2 characters long.  Try 
remembering what "ny" was when you're knee deep into a posting program.  By
the way, all files have field numbers instead of names.  I should have metioned
that to start with, so I'm a little slow :-).

You only have 1000 lines of program space,  make it short if you can bubba.  If
your program is over 300 lines the load time gets to be a bit long.  They have
a program that will fix this, at a extra charge.  I won't even tell you how and
why this is even necessary, that belongs in net.joke.

In short, you can come up to speed pretty fast, create applications pretty fast,and out grow it pretty fast.  Why am I still using it? Thanks to Tandy I learnedit while on the support lones and was able to work into a living outside the 
'Shack.

Fear not for me, I still plan to make my fortune with this stuff.

Tony Holden
millionare in the making, you can tell by my spelling.
ihnp!killer~tony