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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Free Text in a Database
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Date: 26 Jan 89 05:45:09 GMT
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In article <1@dbase.UUCP> awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) writes:
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>Not to be overtly commercial, but why not try dBASE IV?  It is known to

To be even less commercial, you might consider Bibliofile, my data base
described in COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES 18 (1984), pp. 71-85.
Designed originally for medieval Latin texts and romanized Japanese,
Bibliofile will happily accept input that will choke most commercial
data bases. Although primarily designed for text, it does have double
precision floating point and single precision integer arithmetic.

Currently Bibliofile is available for SCO Xenix 2.2, MSDOS, 4.3 BSD
UNIX (VAX 11/750, VAX 8800, Sun, etc.). The current price is $00.00,
but this may double in the near future. -:)

If you do decide to go with D-base(d)-IV, let me know how it runs under
4.3 BSD on a VAX 8800 or a Sun Work Station.

Earl H. Kinmonth
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