Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!hacgate!ashtate!dbase!awd From: awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: dBase IV Bug(s)? Summary: dBASE IV offers more than Foxbase+ v2.1 Message-ID: <54@dbase.UUCP> Date: 20 Apr 89 16:31:05 GMT References: <1762@muvms1.bitnet> Organization: Ashton Tate Devlopment Center Glendale, Calif. Lines: 23 In article , emuleomo@surfers.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) writes: > I will advise you in all sincerity to SWITCH to Foxbase+ v2.1. > It will do ANYTHING you need to do approx. 3 times faster than dBase IV > and it contains no known bugs.!!!! Futhermore, you may not even need to > change your code if you have'nt been using the 'new' Ashton Tate commands. > > In case you think all this talk about Foxbase+ is just talk, try reading > the April (or is it March) issue of Database Forum where George Goley Jr > --Emuleomo O.O. > *** Premature use of dBase IV is the root of all evil. *** dBASE IV is a tremendous improvement over the dBASE III PLUS language, and Foxbase is merely a clone of III+. There are dozens of new commands and functions, a sophisticated report writer, and so forth. There are reasons for the 'new' Ashton Tate commands and there are a lot of useful things that Foxbase+ can't do. (Of course, paper and pencil can be used to _simulate_ dBASE IV, but, speaking realistically...) George Goley Jr, a knowledgable writer who may be completely unbiased, is also the author of the only book about Foxbase+, an ad for which ships with each copy of the software. /alastair/