Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!dkuug!freja!viggo
From: viggo@freja.diku.dk (Allan Kim Schougaard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: DBASE 2 sucks! (Some humor!!!)
Message-ID: <4313@freja.diku.dk>
Date: 29 Dec 88 14:49:00 GMT
Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK
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People in this newsgroup keep posting "please humor me", so I will.

One of my friends had to take a course in DBASE from Ashton-Tate, and they
had to use DBASE 2 (yaugg). I got her a computer and everything was fine.  I
replaced the computer and everything was fine UNTIL she tried DBASE 2.  She
put in the DB2 disk, changed disks, issued a use-command (so far everything
was fine), then she tried the browse command and everything went bazurc.
Strange, thought I, maybee it's the BIOS. So I went out and got a new bios,
but it in, but the problem was still there. Very strange, said I, let try
and replace some off the boards. But before I got that far, she tried DB2 on
an true Blue with 2 diskdrives: First I didn't work (like on her own) but
then suddenly it worked !?! THEN we found out the problem: DBASE 2 just
reads from the diskdrive it was started from, and it doesn't check to see if
it's the right disk!!! This is awful!! I would sue Ashton-Tate if I could!
(Only I can't in Denmark.)

Some of you already know about this, please laugh.
The rest: remember this story, and remember it YOU get troubles of your own.

		(I refuse put my name down here!)