mmhen@beryl.berkeley.edu.UUCP (10/02/87)
I am working with a 3Com network of IBM PC compatibles. We use Nantucket's Clipper to develop network database applications. Recently I became inter- ested in RBASE. I would like to take advantage of its more powerful rela- tional capabilities, but have not seen a compiler available. Does anyone know of a compiler for RBASE System V which produces stand-alone executable files? Thanks in advance, Michael Henry, UC Berkeley
mjr@well.UUCP (Matthew Rapaport) (10/04/87)
There is no Rbase V compiler, and don't give up Dbase for Rbase unless you really make sure the application will fit it. Rbase is more relational than Dbase (in an academic sense), and playing with its relational capabilities can be fun, but it achieves its relational power at the expense of LIMITED DATABASE SIZES, no more than 400 fields TOTAL in one integrated database, and no more than 80 tables to divide those 400 fields among! Rbase is a greate product for small MIS or DS type systems (though I like Paradox better in some ways), but it is not a good DP environment (or not as good as Dbase!)