bjhicks@trillium.waterloo.edu (Barbara Hicks) (02/20/89)
This question concerns database programs for the PC. I am looking for either Public Domain or Shareware database programs for the PC, preferably similar to dBase. If anyone has any recommendations for their favourite I would like to hear from you. I have looked at Freebase (available via FTP from Simtel20) and found it difficult to learn unless you already know dBase, so documentation is very important. Also, if you have any recommendations for Wampum, or Jim Button's PC-File program I would like to hear what you have to say. Please E-Mail me and I can summarize to the net later for the benefit of all. Barbara. bjhicks@trillium.waterloo.edu "Divorcees are an 'Ex-To-See' !!"
w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) (02/22/89)
[Barbara Hicks <bjhicks@trillium.waterloo.edu> posted a request for
recommendations and pointers to PD and Shareware Database programs]
Barbara, I use Jim Button's PC-File+ (ver. 2.0) to catalog the
Simtel20 archives on my PC. It's very easy to use. No language has
to be learned as it is all menu-driven. It uses its own file
format but is able to import and export to many different formats.
Recently Button released PC-File-dB. It uses a file format which is
the same as dBASEIII.
Both of these packages are available from Simtel20:
Filename Type Bytes CRC
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.DATABASE>
PCFDB1A.ARC BINARY 327900 4981H \
PCFDB2A.ARC BINARY 352213 34BCH > PC-File-dB
PCFDB3.ARC BINARY 155825 9985H /
PCFILED.ARC BINARY 214796 BA9FH \
PCFILEP.ARC BINARY 254348 576CH > PC-File+ v2.0
PCFILEU.ARC BINARY 234412 4A26H /
--Keith Petersen
Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.0.0.74]
DDN: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdzolasov@cs.columbia.edu (Benjamin Olasov) (02/23/89)
Hello, Suppose you had several large VAXs running VMS, scads of IBM AT's, all on an Ethernet network. Further suppose you wanted to implement a facilities management and maintenance system using either FM software or database software with robust applications development capabilities (or both) that ran on the VAXs with corresponding software on the ATs. Further suppose that the databases created on the ATs must be directly readable by the VAXs, and vice versa. Which software would you use? For 2 extra points, why? Please respond to this account. Cheers, Ben Olasov