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Database
Spreadsheet
Database
Spreadsheet

They're different.  Spreadsheets don't need to do the sorting and filtering  
that databases do, and correspondingly don't have those capabilities.  Adding  
such functionality is kind of silly.  The only reasons that Lotus has the  
"database" (and I use the term loosely) capabilities it does is because some  
gigantic chunk of companies in the world run their ENTIRE businesses with  
Lotus 123, and Lotus sort of obliged them back in 80-something.

What about using DataPhile - I hear that a command line interface is being  
added to it.

My two cents for this quarter-second.
Shawn Broderick
shawn@monitor.com

Ivo Welch writes
>
>I have been trying to  convince Athena  Design to include a Unix   
command-line
>file reader. That is, a utility  that reads a  Mesa spreadsheet and outputs  
an
>ASCII data file (i.e. a command line equivalent of "save as text"). That  
would
>allow me to use Mesa to keep all my databases,  and  to  have  S or other  
Unix
>filters operate on a  database; or to dial  in and look  at the contents of  
my
>spreadsheets. (Even nicer if  there was an  update  mechanism.) Note that  
this
>cannot be accomplished through Mesa's API.
>
>Athena Design sees no demand for this  feature, although it would require  
only
>minimal effort to implement.   Perhaps  more  requests could  convince   
Athena
>Design otherwise. I very much like their spreadsheet, and would want to use  
it
>for real work.
>
>/ivo welch