[comp.databases] Where can I get a dBase IV reference NOT for novices?

alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) (02/26/89)

In just a few months Fo Software is going to release a product language-
compatible with dBase IV. One of the wonderful things about them is that
they listen when I talk. But when I make my enhancement requests, I don't
want to waste my time and theirs by asking for stuff that is already in,
or can't be compatible with, dBase IV. To that end I want a complete
Language Reference Guide to dBase IV, short and concise, without the 700
pages of bullshit that goes with it in all of the published books I've seen.
In fact the one book I saw that had any kind of reference at all was
horrendously incomplete.

Does anyone know of such a book? Price isn't the issue (but I'm not about
to pay Ashton-Tate for a full copy of dBase just top see what they did
wrong...)

Thanks in advance,
Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}