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echo: dbridge
to: Mark Hofmann
from: mark lewis
date: 2014-11-09 18:05:48
subject: One more note.

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014, Mark Hofmann wrote to Nicholas Boel:

NB> Right. Doesn't DB only support MSG format at this point? I don't 
NB> remember if Nick mentioned supporting anything else in 4+ or not.

 MH> There is a Goldbase edition that stores in .DAT format, but not
 MH> sure the details.

goldbase is modified HMB using larger variable types to allow for larger
numbers in the various data types that can use them... i forget the limits
on the HMB but they were not limits at the time they were introduced...
today, they are quite limiting for some systems...

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