Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watcgl!lily!jafischer
From: jafischer@lily.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TW/DataManager ST vs. BaseTwo vs. SuperBase vs. dBMan vs. your fave
Keywords: Please enlighten this poor sod!
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Date: 16 Mar 88 07:35:53 GMT
References: <1988Mar15.210101.19184@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
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In article <1988Mar15.210101.19184@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> parora@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Pavneet Arora) writes:
>...  And then that gleam comes into my
>eye.  They glaze over.  I feel the poetry of Moliere like when he so eruditely
>discussed "vapours of the brain" in the play "A Doctor Inspite of Himself".
>Suddenly, I am ready to exchange money for any package.

	I laughed and laughed when I read this.  Pavneet, while I wouldn't
quite use the same words, you've described exactly what comes over me from
time to time.  I _love_ buying software.  I think it's just a chronic love of
spending money, though.  But by gum if I don't have over $1000 worth of
software now... it's getting crazy.  And it's a telling comment on the ST that
it's this software alone that's keeping me from selling my ST and buying an
Amoeba.  I know I'd never get close to what I paid for all of it.

>Please someone.  Anyone.  Help me out.  What's the low down on data base
>managers for the ST?  I guess I need something with some analytical capabil-
>ities.

	I own dBMAN (pretty much a dBASE III+ clone now with version 4,
apparently), although I don't use it nearly as much as I'd like (like for
instance, I really want to get all of the Usenet message summary files into a
database -- what a wealth of information that is).  It's pretty good, and very
powerful, with its programmability.  Not quite as "user friendly" (I apologise
for using the uf-word) as most of the more GEM-oriented dBs out there, but
they do have a GEM interface now.

	Well, not much else I can say, since I really haven't used it in a
while.  In fact, I've barely used version 3, which I've had for 4 months or
so.  Version 2 was terribly buggy, version 3 isn't.  Anyone out there have
version 4?
--
		- Jonathan A. Fischer,    jafischer@lily.waterloo.edu
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