BS>Guess they can afford to give away the old 5.0. I think the current
version
BS>is called Visual dBase 5.5. This has been well reviewed in the Fido
Clipper
BS>forum, and may be a better way than Delphi to do Windows database work if
BS>you don't need to scale to the enterprise level.
Yes, the deal includes an offer to upgrade to the Visual dBase version.
Also, it's not that bad a magazine....
BS>Delphi is slick, but its database capabilities always strike me as being
BS>slow and clumsy. For example, Calvert's book has a
arent-child-grandchild
BS>(customer-order-line item) SQL example whose low speed would be totally
BS>unacceptable in any workplace.
I will have to take a look at that one. Actually, database development
is not my primary interest anyway.
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