wally@pallas.athenanet.com (Wally Hartshorn) (03/13/91)
In article <27839@netcom.COM> rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe) writes: >Once again, allow me to mention dBMan 5, a dBaseIII clone with enough extra >features to compete with dBaseIV, Clipper, etc. I've been using FoxPro (v1.0) at work on a Compaq. Do you know enough about FoxPro to make a comparison to dBMan 5? I have Superbase Personal on the Amiga and have been debating upgrading it to professional (3.0), but I want to do a bit more investigation of the competition before I do that. I don't need dBaseIII compatibility, nor a dBase "look and feel", but I like the features and power that FoxPro has (along with the FoxDoc and FoxView utilities). I particularly like FoxPro's "memo" field type -- a text field of any length, which doesn't use any more space than what is actually in the field. Thus one record can have a memo of 500 bytes, while another record has a memo of only 20 bytes and a third has no memo at all. Also, just as a thought, does/will dBMan support ARexx? Please note the "followup to" on this article. -- Wally Hartshorn (uunet!pallas!wally or wally@athenanet.com) President, Amiga Computer Enthusiasts of Springfield (ACES) Chronicler, Shire of Swordcliff, SCA Sysop, The Quest, F&SF BBS, Citadel-68K node US (217) 546-7608