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In article <48sptv$9b@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, templon@studbolt.mit.edu (Jeff Templon) writes:
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>Hi,
>
>I am looking for a very simple database package/browser, so simple
>that all of the messages I've seen in the various relevant newsgroups
>describe products that are much too complicated for what I want
>to do. 

As people have been pointing you to overly complicated databases, let
me give you a perhaps overly simple one:

			EXCEL

I have a file of 4000 records (rows) in an ASCII flat file I keep at
work.  I wanted better access than 'search', 'grep', and the like.
So I moved the file to a disk and took it home.  In just a few
minutes I had a complete database.  (A half hour?)  I can sort it
by any combination of fields.  I can do simple 'finds' using the
FORM command.  I can also use that to enter or edit records.  I 
use a capability called CRITERIA to set up fairly complex selects
and the records that match the criteria are copied out to peruse
as I see fit.

To satisfy your FORTRAN needs, just pull the data out into a
flat file: tab or space delimited.

We use Oracle at work.  Oracle is incredibly complicated.
(Sure, it's gigabytes so Excel won't work.)

If you want to design a GUI browswer, you have a fair GUI language
on Excel.  I have not personally used it.  But, what you get right
out of the box with no work is, to me, impressive.  

Good luck,
  --jimhahn