yao@puff.UUCP (02/26/87)
I am looking into database for the MAC, and was considering EXCEL and Filemaker+, which is better ? Application mainly in the areas of Journal Reprints Cataloging. Help in the preparing of manuscript so that this Entries could be pasted onto a Word Processor like MacWrite !
chuq@plaid.UUCP (02/26/87)
In article <526@puff.WISC.EDU> yao@puff.WISC.EDU (Yao Lee Raymond) writes: > >I am looking into database for the MAC, and was considering EXCEL and >Filemaker+, which is better ? I've been using FileMaker Plus for about a month and a half after upgrading from Microsoft File in their orphan support program. It isn't perfect, but it is really quite good. You can get it for about $160 at Computerware, so it isn't expensive (if you own an 'orphaned' database, you can buy it from the company for $125 -- see the ads in the Mac magazines for details). I've put some pretty non-trivial stuff into it -- my mailing lists for OtherRealms (it handles laserwriter mailing labels, three wide, with its eyes closed), I've been building a review index for OtherRealms with it, and I'm working on a simple accounting database to help me prove to the IRS that I did have all those neat deductions.... So far, I've bumped on some rough edges and a couple of things I'd like to see but don't exist (yet), but no bugs and no serious functionality problems. I'm really pretty happy with it, and can recommend it to anyone who doesn't need a relational database. The documentation, by the way, is wonderful -- one of the best technical documents I've seen in the Mac world (although I'm just starting to look at Word 3.0....) chuq Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM [I don't read flames] There is no statute of limitations on stupidity