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From: c162-br@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Warner Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Relational database, do I want it?
Message-ID: <1671@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date: 19 Mar 88 18:51:22 GMT
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Reply-To: c162-br@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Warner Young)
Organization: Safety Seal Questions
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Keywords: database relational


	Recently, I've come across a need for a database program of some
sort, but I'm not sure which, if any, of the currently available db programs
for the ST will do the trick.

	What I want is to have one file, where each record is a string of
chars (ex. a magazine title), and to have these sorted.  Then, for each of
these titles, I want all the volumes associated with it as a separate file,
but accessible from the title.

	So, if my first file, TITLE.DAT looks something like

ANALOG
Antic
BYTE
STart		<-- and I have my cursor here
STlog
TV Guide

I want to be able to hit RETURN or whatever, and access the next file,
START.DAT, which would then be:

Volume: I		Date: Summer 1987
Contents: Brief summary of this issue

and be able to progress through a sorted list of these issues.


Is there a database program that will do this?  I've been told that what
I need is a relational database, but the same person who told me this could
not say if DB Man would do the trick.

Thanks

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