OT: What every happened to dBase? (and old ACCESS vs Current ACCESS 2003)

[Al Dykes]

I've got a client who's an old time accountant. Back in the day he
knew dBase backwards and forwards. At some point be picked up ACCESS
(97?) and uses it but never got to like it.

He's asked me to help him pick a new machine and getting the full MS Office bundled
with it is the obvious choice but I have two questions;

- Was dBase a deadend? Is there a DB product out there that's designed
to get the dBasa folks into the 21st century?

- Are there any core functions in ACCESS for a Dbase hacker?

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I've got a client who's an old time accountant. Back in the day he
knew dBase backwards and forwards. At some point be picked up ACCESS
(97?) and uses it but never got to like it.

He's asked me to help him pick a new machine and getting the full MS Office bundled
with it is the obvious choice but I have two questions;

- Was dBase a deadend? Is there a DB product out there that's designed
to get the dBasa folks into the 21st century?

- Are there any core functions in ACCESS for a Dbase hacker?

dBase was sold to Borland. It existed mainly for DOS. Borland now offers
Delphi.

 

[Guest]

Blame you for what? I voted for Bush Twice. There is nothing to blame anyone
for, he is doing a fine job. Semper Fi and Merry Christmas.

DBase 1 thru 4 were a Dos programs and I believe Broderland controlled it.
I use to be a wiz with PFS: File, Plan and Write..... ah the good old days.
Now instead of Batch Files one merely clicks on an Icon.
I don't think DBase is made anymore but you can still Import OLD Dbase
files into office and then do some minor editing. That is how I got my PFS
File files to work. I exported them in a DBase format to a drive and then
Imported them into Office. I did some minor mods and everything works fine
and I have MORE power and more Search abilities than I ever did.

 

[Guest]

My screwup it was Broderbund not broderland...... time warp

 

[Bill Bradshaw]

I've got a client who's an old time accountant. Back in the day he
knew dBase backwards and forwards. At some point be picked up ACCESS
(97?) and uses it but never got to like it.

He's asked me to help him pick a new machine and getting the full MS
Office bundled with it is the obvious choice but I have two questions;

- Was dBase a deadend? Is there a DB product out there that's designed
to get the dBasa folks into the 21st century?

- Are there any core functions in ACCESS for a Dbase hacker?

Well you might try this:

http://www.dbase.com/

Yesterday I opened Visual dBase 7 to perform some operations on a table
(database).

I also still have on a shelf my old Clipper dBase complier.

I now do most of my database programming with Borland's C++Builder.

 

[Matt]

I read at the dBase forums about a setup where you could host the database
with a more robust database system but still let the client use dBase on the
front end to interact with it. It might be more than you had in mind, but I
thought you should know about it.

 

[Martin L]

I use Visual dBase that he could use with old style commands as
object programming commands. If he's not a programmer, maybe dQuery from
dbase could do the job for him.

dBase is not a Borland property anymore.

Find dBase at www.dbase.com