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- From: NoOne@Home.com (Programmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Btrieve
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 05:26:47 GMT
- Organization: Business Data Systems, Inc.
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- >.> 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...
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- >> 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...
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- >>
- >> 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...
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- We purchased the BTrieve manuals, license, and developer's kit, and
- the manuals are worse than DOS manuals. The examples given in the
- programming reference do not even work. This just leads to more
- confusion. Thus we have given up on BTrieve.
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