dBase

This might be a little off the main thrust of your story, but … It might not be entirely accurate to use term ‘dbase’ in place of ‘database’. dBase is a brand of software for general and database programming, and also a type of database table disk file.

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-- A database program called Vulcan by Wayne Ratliff appears; it later is known by the name dBase II.

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The software now supports additional formats for data input, such as dBase II, III or IV.

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In fact you can even do your clients a big favor by bringing back their old cobol, Foxpro and dBase Programs orgainally written for them, and “scrapped” by the windows way of assimilating everyting in its path, and getting their businesses to run better now that they are running on what were once well designed custom programs that were not windows compliant, but run excelelentyy under Linux.

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The opportunities we learn in programming are C, C++, Java, UNIX,. net, Oracle, Perl, dBase and many other programming softwares to solve lots of problems.

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I remember using VisiCalc as a spreadsheet and dBase II to write some cutting edge applications.

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Pretty much I think it is because you have a number of people with a common area of interest ... dBase programing ..., but a very diverse set of other interests.

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For a number of years I have been involved with a users group for dB2k, the latest iteration of dBase.

Request for reactions to a "Completely Different" Forum . . . 2002

Pretty much I think it is because you have a number of people with a common area of interest ... dBase programing ..., but a very diverse set of other interests.

Request for reactions to a "Completely Different" Forum . . . 2002

For a number of years I have been involved with a users group for dB2k, the latest iteration of dBase.

Request for reactions to a "Completely Different" Forum . . . 2002