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From: wylbur37 on 1 Mar 2010 11:14 A friend of mine who has been using a DOS version of dBase for years and years is now interested in switching to something newer and more recent, especially since his dBase isn't Y2K compliant. Can anyone recommend a freeware database program that runs on Windows XP (and hopefully also on Vista) that can be used for general applications (such as maintaining a mailing list or cataloging a collection of CD's and DVD's)? ....
From: Diabolic Preacher on 1 Mar 2010 14:43 wylbur37 expressed the following thoughts on 3/1/2010 9:44 PM: > A friend of mine who has been using a DOS version of dBase for years > and years is now interested in switching to something newer and > more recent, especially since his dBase isn't Y2K compliant. > > Can anyone recommend a freeware database program that runs on > Windows XP (and hopefully also on Vista) that can be used for > general applications (such as maintaining a mailing list > or cataloging a collection of CD's and DVD's)? > > ... OpenOffice Base. There maybe some simple SQLite database frontends which could serve the purpose. HTH -- Diabolic Preacher As Is
From: Jeffrey Needle on 1 Mar 2010 14:59 Diabolic Preacher wrote: > wylbur37 expressed the following thoughts on 3/1/2010 9:44 PM: >> A friend of mine who has been using a DOS version of dBase for years >> and years is now interested in switching to something newer and >> more recent, especially since his dBase isn't Y2K compliant. >> >> Can anyone recommend a freeware database program that runs on >> Windows XP (and hopefully also on Vista) that can be used for >> general applications (such as maintaining a mailing list >> or cataloging a collection of CD's and DVD's)? >> >> ... > > OpenOffice Base. There maybe some simple SQLite database frontends which > could serve the purpose. > > HTH > -- > Diabolic Preacher > As Is There are many others. You can google for links to them; some of them are on the Pricelessware site. csved -- flat-file editor, a bit much unless you do a lot of manipulation of the data. File Amigo -- superb product for flat-file database needs. There may be a limit on records in the freeware version, you'll have to check. dbworx -- also minimalist, but does the job. And there's a dbase-compatible database within the Softmaker Office suite. It's in the word processor module. Older versions of the office suite are free. Hope this helps.
From: B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson on 1 Mar 2010 16:22 On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:14:08 -0800 (PST), wylbur37 wrote: > A friend of mine who has been using a DOS version of dBase for years > and years is now interested in switching to something newer and > more recent, especially since his dBase isn't Y2K compliant. Which version? In my experience, dBase IV 1.5 and 2.0 still work without a problem. (Other versions might as well.) Apart from the two-digit last access year in *.dbf headers (and maybe ones own lazy-written *.prg code and forms), I'm not aware of any Y2K problems of dBase... Could you please elaborate on this a bit? (I'm still running dBase IV programs on a regular basis.) > Can anyone recommend a freeware database program that runs on > Windows XP (and hopefully also on Vista) that can be used for > general applications (such as maintaining a mailing list > or cataloging a collection of CD's and DVD's)? That's a question of personal preferences and capabilities, as well as target (database size, performance,...). OO Base (like Diabolic Preacher suggested) should be a good starting place for the creation of personal cataloging databases, though. BeAr -- =========================================================================== = What do you mean with: "Perfection is always an illusion"? = ===============================================================--(Oops!)===
From: wylbur37 on 6 Mar 2010 15:32
On Mar 1, 4:22 pm, "B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson" <br.eder...(a)expires-2010-03-31.arcornews.de> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:14:08 -0800 (PST), wylbur37 wrote: > > A friend of mine who has been using a DOS version of dBase for years > > and years is now interested in switching to something newer and > > more recent, especially since his dBase isn't Y2K compliant. > > Which version? In my experience, dBase IV 1.5 and 2.0 still work > without a problem. (Other versions might as well.) Apart from the > two-digit last access year in *.dbf headers (and maybe ones own > lazy-written *.prg code and forms), I'm not aware of any Y2K > problems of dBase... Could you please elaborate on this a bit? > (I'm still running dBase IV programs on a regular basis.) I don't recall which exact version he has. He had been using a two-digit year code, so any dates whose year is 2000 or later end up sorting as "earlier" than dates of 1999 or before, and he's not sophisticated enough to write scripts. Also, he needs to be able to do joins (as in the case of a mailing list where someone has multiple addresses). .... |