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From: tarnoff@cme.nbs.gov (Nicholas Tarnoff)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: refer bug,simple DB?,Sun version dBaseIII?
Message-ID: <1187@r2d2.cme.nbs.gov>
Date: 23 May 89 12:59:07 GMT
Reply-To: tarnoff@cme.nbs.gov (Nicholas Tarnoff)
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Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
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I need some info. and advice about a simple database program for Suns!

I tried to use Refer but found bugs. For example, the minimum number
of characters that indexbib considers a word (default:3) could not be
changed (using the mtab -l option). Indexbib behaved unreliably if this
option was set to a number other than three. The bug was reported to
Sun but I am still left without a DB program.

Do you know of simple public domain database program(s)  for storing literature
references?

I am also curious if there exists a Sun version of dBaseIII.

Please e-mail me your reply.

Thanks for the help.

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