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Article #20624Re: Microsoft File
From: Jeff Meyer
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1987 19:05
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1987 19:05
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In article <31157@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>Take a hint from all the other ex-File users. Find a new database. It's been
>over two years since Microsoft last updated File, and from my attempts to
>get an answer out of them over it, they seem to have no intention of doing
>any further support on it.
>
>Go get Filemaker+. It's a good, inexpensive little database with very strong
>report writer features.
It's so good (to quote the President of Remington), Microsoft bought the
company, and tried to buy the database -- obviously to replace File.
Frankly, HyperCard is a better database than File, which isn't saying
much...
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cheerful about? The
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Microsoft File Message-ID: <2061@sputnik.COM> Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 14:05:58 EST Article-I.D.: sputnik.2061 Posted: Thu Oct 22 14:05:58 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 01:38:07 EST References: <2457@sphinx.uchicago.edu> <31157@sun.uucp> Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 26