Hey Brian, Yes I grew up with it also. But I am getting rather old now.
On 9/28/06, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andrew Jensen said the following on 28/09/2006 6:52 PM: > Why does it seem that Linux uses all want dBase supported so well. > > Is Linux, when it comes to desktop databases, still at a stage that > dBase is > the coin of the realm? > Do they - I hadn't noticed. Perhaps it's nostalgia. After all dBase, albeit under an earlier name, did power up Voyager, and thus also V-ger. Besides, I grew up with dBase and I am still somewhat attached to it's programming language and style. I used it a lot under DOS. And YES, I have migrated to generic SQL, although I don's use it much. > I am not trying to be a smart-alik there but personally I surprised it is > supported at beyond being another datasource type via ODBC - but I am MS > Windows centric. By the way, MS doesn't really have a database. Access is more a report application with data storage attached. I have just recently moved away from MSAccess completely. Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
