On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 16:57, J. Rafael Sánchez wrote: > Hi Guys, > With the desire to get the $M monkey off my back, I have acquired StarOffice > 6.0. There's a program called adabas in the package. By the info I found on > the internet about it, it appears to have something to do with databases. Is > this a db engine? Can this package - (personal version) be used like $M > access? > It's a fairly good open source database. I had some problems getting the command-line tools to run under Windows XP though so I was unable to import an older database. So I ended up using MySQL for Windows instead after having to get a patched version myodbc. StarOffice and Adabas work very well together but I wouldn't say that about SO and MySQL. I couldn't auto increment my indexes for MySQL to work with SO.
> I anyone has used it, can you give me some info or point me in the direction > I should go to make use of this application? > If you are starting the database from scratch it should work really well. If you are looking to import from another database you may have some fun. -- mark
