parora@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Pavneet Arora) (03/16/88)
OK Folks. I've decided I need a data base manager. The bills for my thesis need to be sorted out so that I can present them to my supervisor. I figure I can classify my wall board heaters by wattage. And I really do need to figure out how much I spend on kites during February (This is Canada remember). My wife thinks its another one of my shennagan's. I almost believe her, but then I see an ad for the latest in ST data base managers. Organize your life. Never succumb to paper lists again. This software is packed with features! Supports a monitor, left/right cursor movements, does automatic linefeeds in a report! You name it! And then that gleam comes into my eye. They glaze over. I feel the poetry of Moliere like when he so eruditely discussed "vapours of the brain" in the play "A Doctor Inspite of Himself". Suddenly, I am ready to exchange money for any package. Please someone. Anyone. Help me out. What's the low down on data base managers for the ST? I guess I need something with some analytical capabil- ities. I read a book on REFLEX for the IBM. This sounded like a neat product. Is there something out there like this for the ST? adTHANKSvance pavneet arora parora@utgpu
jafischer@lily.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) (03/16/88)
In article <1988Mar15.210101.19184@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> parora@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Pavneet Arora) writes: >... And then that gleam comes into my >eye. They glaze over. I feel the poetry of Moliere like when he so eruditely >discussed "vapours of the brain" in the play "A Doctor Inspite of Himself". >Suddenly, I am ready to exchange money for any package. I laughed and laughed when I read this. Pavneet, while I wouldn't quite use the same words, you've described exactly what comes over me from time to time. I _love_ buying software. I think it's just a chronic love of spending money, though. But by gum if I don't have over $1000 worth of software now... it's getting crazy. And it's a telling comment on the ST that it's this software alone that's keeping me from selling my ST and buying an Amoeba. I know I'd never get close to what I paid for all of it. >Please someone. Anyone. Help me out. What's the low down on data base >managers for the ST? I guess I need something with some analytical capabil- >ities. I own dBMAN (pretty much a dBASE III+ clone now with version 4, apparently), although I don't use it nearly as much as I'd like (like for instance, I really want to get all of the Usenet message summary files into a database -- what a wealth of information that is). It's pretty good, and very powerful, with its programmability. Not quite as "user friendly" (I apologise for using the uf-word) as most of the more GEM-oriented dBs out there, but they do have a GEM interface now. Well, not much else I can say, since I really haven't used it in a while. In fact, I've barely used version 3, which I've had for 4 months or so. Version 2 was terribly buggy, version 3 isn't. Anyone out there have version 4? -- - Jonathan A. Fischer, jafischer@lily.waterloo.edu ...{ihnp4,allegra,decvax,utzoo,utcsri}!watmath!lily!jafischer "My computer understands me." - Old button of mine.