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I need some help in selecting a database manager.

My needs in terms of the actual managing abilities of the program
aren't much:  the program will be keeping track of names, address,
etc., and will be used to generate directories, mailing labels, and
addresses for Word merge letters.  There are plenty of flat-file
database managers out there that will easily handle these operations.

What I'm having trouble finding is a program which gives a little
bit of typographical control.  So far, I've looked at Panarama and
Microsoft File, and you can't even change fields to bold or italics
in these.  FileMaker II is much better, but alas, it doesn't use
fractional character widths, which means that bold and/or italic
words have an unacceptably low print quality.  The directories that
I'll be producing have to look professional, so that's why being
able to mess with the type is important.

Does anyone know of a database that gives one a good deal of
control over the type?  I need at the very least a program which
allows use of boldface and/or italics and uses fractional character
widths.  This is a longshot, but kerning would also be nice (some
of the fields will have large print).

Oh yeah, I'll need a program that will run over a TOPS network
too.

Any advice would certainly be appreciated.  And forgive me if this
has been discussed over the newsgroup before.

cheers, from
charles s. geiger, esq.