28 Jan
1998
28 Jan
'98
5:26 a.m.
John,
Ward is right. The dBase manual is huge and not very helpful. Get a third
party book on dBase. I have Using dBase III Plus by Jones printed by
Osborne-McGraw-Hill. It's an excellent book. As old as dBase is you can
probably find a used book in a trift store or a new one at a closeout at a
regular book store.
Joe
At 09:32 AM 1/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
John Higginbotham wrote:
Anyone have an extra dBASE II manual they'd be willing to part with? I've
got dBASE II in ROM on one of my GRiDCASE 3 laptops, and would like to
learn more about it.
If you want to learn dBASE II, the last thing you want is a manual.
The manuals are so bad that that's what started the whole industry
of third-party software guides, many of which you can still find in
stores selling second-hand books. (And I'm not saying this because
of the feud I had with Ashton-Tate back in the early 80s over whose
fault it was when dBase II wouldn't work on a TRS-80 Model II with
Lifeboat Associates CP/M -- it was eventially traced to a poorly
implement system call by Lifeboat, but Ashton-Tate was no help).
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.