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to: Rod Speed
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1994-02-25 19:12:22
subject: how far do databases go

RS>> In theory, yes. In practice there arent that many SQL supporting PC
 RS>> databases. So in theory its portable, in practice, only a little bit.

 PE> Oh, so that's the reason.  I think Informix might, and I think DB2 is
 PE> available on OS/2.  Sounds like manual SQL preprocessing into XBase calls
 PE> is the way to go!  BFN.

If that's what you think too, can you give me a brief description of what
needs to be done to translate SQL into XBase?  I'd prefer to translate from
SQL into something (anything) that is PD though.  BFN.

Paul

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