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- From: sinan@cyberramp.net (John Noland)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Btrieve
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 20:43:59 GMT
- Organization: Prose Software
- Message-ID: <4j9kuf$55s@newshost.cyberramp.net>
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- In article <zozTxc9nXABT083yn@mbnet.mb.ca>, natewild@mbnet.mb.ca says...
- >
- >stevez1@ibm.net (Steven R. Zuch) Wrote (In comp.lang.c):
- >> E.H.Terwiel@inter.NL.net (E.H. Terwiel (Erik)) wrote:
- >>
- >> BTI web site http://www.btrieve.com. Primarily marketing materials -
- >> hopefully they will expand it.
- >I thought I would hop in on this thread. Btrieve is an excellent product,
- >but the resources behind it STINK. The technical support people are great,
- >but they always call back the next day sometime! The BBS and Web page are
- >useless. And I almost considered using another product when I got my copy
- >of the developer's kit in the mail and the manual was less useful than
- >toilet paper...
- >
- >> It would be nice if BTI came out with a demo program (e.g. only allow
- >> 200 records).
- >This would be a good idea, but I think they will have to level out the
- >learning curve somewhat if they want to attract new and less experienced
- >developers...
- >
- >I have years of C/C++ programming experience and I was SOUNDLY confused
- >after reading the documentation...
- >
- >I am writing an application in which the back-end software is Windows NT
- >based and the front-end software is DOS based. I have had my share of
- >troubles on both ends so far... Almost all of them were due to inadequate
- >documentation...
- >
- >I bought the DOS developer's kit to use with C/C++ and the manual was
- >written to be implimentation and platform independant... This amounts to a
- >vague and useless book...
- >
- I was at the book store the other day and I saw a new book by Jim Kyle
- dedicated to Btrieve. I took a quick look at it and it looked like it
- had some pretty good info.
-
- -John
-
-