fyu05@seq1.keele.ac.uk (D.J. Crawford) (01/25/91)
I'm not sure if this the best newsgroup to ask. But basically I am interning at a psychiatric hospital this summer (Mclean Hospital Belmont M.A.) and part of my duties require me to program in a language called rbase !!!!!! So far nobody knows what the hell rbase is, and I therefore need the wisdom of people on the usenet. If anyone can help me, I would appreciate some sample instructions, and the title of a book. Please E-mail replies. Thankyou. fyu05@seq1.keele.ac.uk Derek Crawford University of Keele Keele Staffordshire, ST5 5AE, ENGLAND
stt@inmet.inmet.com (01/27/91)
Re: What is "rbase"? I suspect that "rbase" is the database programming language associated with the "RBASE" product, which I think is a clone of "DBASE II/III", and presumably supports the same language. There are many books available on DBASE II/III/IV, so you should be able to learn something useful from them. -S. Tucker Taft Intermetrics, Inc. Cambridge, MA 02138
hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) (02/04/91)
In article <21900004@inmet> stt@inmet.inmet.com writes: > >Re: What is "rbase"? > >I suspect that "rbase" is the database programming language >associated with the "RBASE" product, which I think is >a clone of "DBASE II/III", and presumably supports the same >language. There are many books available on DBASE II/III/IV, >so you should be able to learn something useful from them. >-S. Tucker Taft I did not see the note that this one respoded to, but just wanted to clear up any confusion Mr. Taft's note may have created. RBASE, the MS-DOS (and some other platforms I believe) database package from MicroRim is NOT a clone of DBase, the package from Ashton-Tate. It is a very different package, with a different sort of database structure and a totally different Programming language. I will not get into questions of which is better (though since I was for a period a certified developer for MicroRim, I obviously have some opinions on that), but just wanted to point out that they were not the same thing. Josh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Josh Hodas Home Phone: (215) 222-7112 4223 Pine Street School Office Phone: (215) 898-9514 Philadelphia, PA 19104 New E-Mail Address: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu