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>>>>> On 11 Dec 92 01:37:52 GMT, jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) said:

| In article <ARIE.92Dec3112408@quip.eecs.umich.edu> arie@eecs.umich.edu (Arie Covrigaru) writes:

|>Having used a Mac for a long time now, it seems to me that one of the
|>basic interface design considerations on the Mac is that applications
|>are able to open several "documents" at the same time. In 4D, the
|>equivalent of the document concept is a database. Why is it then,
|>that 4D is limited to opening only one database at a time. I am new
|>to 4D, so maybe this is true for other relational database management 
|>applications. What I do know that FileMaker Pro, for example has no
|>such limitation.
|>
|>There are many advantages to being able to open two or more separate
|>databases at the same time and I wonder if this limitation in 4D is
|>common in relational database applications or there is some other
|>specific reason for it in 4D.

| Try 4D 3.0; you can have multiple processes, each with their own file
| open, rnning simultaneously.  It's rather nice.

| jas
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I haven't upgraded yet to 4D 3.0 so I don't have the documentation.
Will you please elaborate on the processes and their own files?

Thanks,
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