doug@psy.uwa.oz.au (Doug Robb) (04/02/91)
I am in the process of choosing a database for a student record/marking system I plan to develop on AT's. We network our pc's using SUN's pcnfs, the servers being sun sparc stations and dec micro vax's. I plan to have an nfs mounted disk available for the pc's to read/write the shared database files. I have used and am aware of the capabilities of dbase 3,4, paradox, clipper and rbase. Being a fluent C programmer my main gripe is the lack of grunt in the programming language's of the above. My questions: 1. According to the Clarion adverts it has the "robust characteristics of a true programming language" Anyone got any comments? How true is this? 2. And also I would like to hear from anyone doing file/record locking on a pcnfs network. I did try this with clipper and couldnt get it to work and wondered if you really needed a network operating system like novell etc. 3. anyone know any clarion newgroups/users groups ftp sites etc regards doug@psy.uwa.oz.au